2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held between July 31–August 1.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 teams of each heat (Q) plus the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 28–30.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 of each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 29–30.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres
The men's 5000 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on August 1.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 28–30.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 3 of each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 28–29.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
The men's discus throw at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 29.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
The men's hammer throw at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 31.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
The men's high jump at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on August 1.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw
The men's javelin throw at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on August 1.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump
The men's long jump at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 28–29.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump, Results, Qualification
Qualifying perf. 7.85 (Q) or 12 best performers (q) advanced to the Final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 31.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
The men's shot put at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 28.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 31.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
The women's 10,000 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 31.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres
The women's 100 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 28–29.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 3 of each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
The women's 100 metres hurdles at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 28–29.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 29–30.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk
The women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on August 1.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres
The women's 200 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 31–August 1.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 3 of each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase
The women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 31.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
The women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 30.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
The women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on August 1.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 28–30.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 3 of each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
The women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 31–August 1.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres
The women's 5000 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 29.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics were held on July 31–August 1.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
The women's discus throw at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 30.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw
The women's hammer throw at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 28.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
The women's heptathlon at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 30–31.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
The women's high jump at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 30.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
The women's javelin throw at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 31.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
The women's long jump at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 30.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault
The women's pole vault at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on July 31.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
The women's shot put at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on August 1.


2010 African Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
The women's triple jump at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held on August 1.


2010 African Fencing Championships
The 2010 African Fencing Championships were held in Tunis, Tunisia from 25 to 30 September.


2010 African Handball Champions League
The 2010 African Handball Champions League was the 32nd 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 21–30, 2010 at the Complexe Sportif Mohammed V in Casablanca, Morocco, contested by 17 teams and won by Étoile Sportive du Sahel of Tunisia.


2010 African Handball Champions League, Preliminary round, Group A
* Note:      Advance to quarter-finals      Relegated to 9-12th classification      Relegated to 13-16th classification


2010 African Handball Champions League, Preliminary round, Group B
* Note:      Advance to quarter-finals      Relegated to 9-12th classification      Relegated to 13-16th classification


2010 African Handball Champions League, Preliminary round, Group C
* Note:      Advance to quarter-finals      Relegated to 9-12th classification      Relegated to 13-16th classification


2010 African Handball Champions League, Preliminary round, Group D
* Note:      Advance to quarter-finals      Relegated to 9-12th classification      Relegated to 13-16th classification


2010 African Handball Cup Winners' Cup
The 2010 African Handball Cup Winners' Cup was the 26th 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 April 7–17, 2010 at the Palais des Sports de Ouagadougou in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contested by 16 teams and won by Zamalek Sporting Club of Egypt.


2010 African Handball Cup Winners' Cup, Knockout stage, 9–16th qualification - Group 1
* Note:      Advance to 9-12th classification      Relegated to 13-16th classification


2010 African Handball Cup Winners' Cup, Knockout stage, 9–16th qualification - Group 2
* Note:      Advance to 9-12th classification      Relegated to 13-16th classification


2010 African Judo Championships
The 2010 African Judo Championships were the 31st edition of the African Judo Championships, and were held in Yaounde, Cameroon from 15 April to 18 April 2010.


2010 African Men's Handball Championship
The 2010 African Men's Handball Championship was the 19th edition of the African Men's Handball Championship, organized by the African Handball Confederation, which acted as the qualification process for the 2011 World Men's Handball Championship. It was held in Cairo and Suez Egypt between 10 and 21 February 2010.


2010 African Roller Hockey Club Championship
The III African Roller Hockey Club Championship was the 3rd edition of the African Roller Hockey Club Championship organized by FARS. It was held in July 2010 in Pretoria, South Africa.


2010 African Roller Hockey Club Championship
Was the first time from 15 years that Egypt had teams to participate.


2010 African Roller Hockey Club Championship
The winner, of this tournament, Académica de Luanda, will be present in the most important Club Championship of Roller Hockey, Rink hockey World Club Championship to be held probably in Portugal or Egypt in 2010.


2010 African Swimming Championships
The 10th African Swimming Championships were held September 13–19, 2010 in Casablanca, Morocco. The event was hosted by the Royal Moroccan Swimming Federation. It featured pool competition in a 50m (long course) pool; and Open Water races.


2010 African Swimming Championships, Participating countries
Over 200 swimmers from 21 countries participated in the 10th Championships, making it the largest ever (both in terms of number of swimmers and number of countries). Countries which sent teams were:


2010 African Swimming Championships, Schedule
Preliminary heats began at 10:00 am; finals at 4:00 pm Open Water races began at 10:00 am


2010 African Swimming Championships, Medal standings
Final medal standings for the 2010 African Swimming Championships are:


2010 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
The 2010 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the second edition of the African U-17 Cup of Nations for Women and the first edition of this under-17 qualification tournament new format. The biennial international under-17 football competition organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine which women's under-17 national teams from Africa qualify for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.


2010 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
10 teams entered the competition, but due to many withdrawals, only 5 played matches. The final three teams qualified to the World Cup. The top three teams of the tournament Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa qualified for the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago as the CAF representatives.


2010 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, Second round
Nigeria and Ghana qualify for the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup held in Trinidad and Tobago. South Africa and Tunisia will play in a playoff round to determine the last qualifier.


2010 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, Play-off round
The winner of the play-off round will qualify for the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup held in Trinidad and Tobago.


2010 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
The following three teams from CAF qualified for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.


2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
The 2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 5th edition of the African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, the biennial international youth football competition organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine which women's under-20 national teams from Africa qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.


2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
Players born on or after 1 January 1990 are eligible to compete in the tournament. The top two teams of the tournament Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany as the CAF representatives.


2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, Third round
The Third Round was held from 12 to 28 February 2010. The winners of the two Third Round matches will qualify directly to the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup held in Germany.


2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
The following two teams from CAF qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.


2010 African Volleyball Championship U19
The 2010 African Volleyball Championship U19 was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from September 13 to September 18, 2010. The finalists will qualify for the 2011 Youth World Championship.


2010 African Volleyball Championship U19, Competition system
The competition system of the 2010 African Championship U19 is the single Round-Robin system. Each team plays once against each of the 4 remaining teams. Points are accumulated during the whole tournament, and the final ranking is determined by the total points gained.


2010 African Volleyball Championship U21
The 2010 African Volleyball Championship U21 was held in Misrata, Libya, from 2 to 9 October 2010. The finalists will qualify for the 2011 World Junior Championship.


2010 African Weightlifting Championships
This is a list of results from the 2010 African Weightlifting Championships.


2010 African Women's Championship
The 2010 Women's African Football Championship was held in South Africa from 31 October to 14 November 2010. Seven national teams joined the host nation following a series of knock-out home and away ties. This tournament was also a qualification tournament for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the two finalists, Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea qualifying for the finals in Germany.


2010 African Women's Championship, Qualification
A total of 23 national teams entered qualification which has held over two rounds. In the preliminary round, the 18 lowest-ranked nations were drawn in pairs. The nine winners joined five other national teams in the first round, where the seven winners qualified for the finals.


2010 African Women's Championship, Group stage
The final tournament was held in Gauteng, South Africa from 31 October to 14 November 2010. The seven first round winners joined the host in the finals. The draw took place on 21 September.


2010 African Women's Championship, Group stage
Matches were played at Sinaba Stadium in Daveyton and Makhulong Stadium in Tembisa (both located in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng).


2010 African Women's Championship, Group stage
Where teams finish the group stage at an equal number of points, the ranking in the group is determined based on:


2010 African Women's Championship qualification
This page provides the summaries of the matches of the qualifying rounds for the group stage of the 2010 African Women's Championship. These matches also served as part of the qualifiers for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup to be held in Germany.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification
A total of 23 national teams entered qualification which has held over two rounds. In the preliminary round, the 18 lowest-ranked nations were drawn in pairs. The nine winners joined five other national teams in the first round, where the seven winners qualified for the finals.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, Preliminary round
The matches in the preliminary round were held on 6–7 March 2010 (first leg) and 19–21 March 2010 (second leg).


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, Preliminary round, Matches
Namibia won 3 – 2 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, Preliminary round, Matches
Congo DR won 7 – 2 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, Preliminary round, Matches
Senegal won 1 – 0 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, Preliminary round, Matches
Ivory Coast won 5 – 2 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, Preliminary round, Matches
Guinea won 4 – 3 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, Preliminary round, Matches
Tanzania won 4 – 2 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
The first round was scheduled to be held on 21–23 May 2010 (first leg) and 4–6 June 2010 (second leg).


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, First round, Matches
Algeria won 2 – 1 on aggregate and advanced to the final tournament.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, First round, Matches
Equatorial Guinea  advanced to the final tournament after Namibia withdrew prior to the second leg.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, First round, Matches
Cameroon won 5 – 0 on aggregate and advanced to the final tournament.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, First round, Matches
Ghana won 4 – 0 on aggregate and advanced to the final tournament.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, First round, Matches
Nigeria won 5 – 2 on aggregate and advanced to the final tournament.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, First round, Matches
Mali won 3 – 2 on aggregate and advanced to the final tournament.


2010 African Women's Championship qualification, First round, Matches
Tanzania won 11 – 4 on aggregate and advanced to the final tournament.


2010 African Women's Championship squads
This article describes the squads for the 2010 African Women's Championship.


2010 African Women's Handball Champions League
The 2010 African Handball Champions League was the 32nd 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 22–30, 2010 at the Complexe Sportif Mohammed V in Casablanca, Morocco, contested by 10 teams and won by Atlético Petróleos de Luanda of Angola.


2010 African Women's Handball Champions League, Draw
HC Héritage Inter Club Petro de Luanda Phoenix Gabon US Nouasseur


2010 African Women's Handball Champions League, Preliminary round, Group A
* Note:      Advance to quarter-finals      Relegated to 9th place classification


2010 African Women's Handball Champions League, Preliminary round, Group B
* Note:      Advance to quarter-finals      Relegated to 9th place classification** Penalty for failing to pay participation fees


2010 African Women's Handball Championship
The 2010 African Women's Handball Championship was the 19th edition of the African Women's Handball Championship, organized by the African Handball Confederation, which acted as the qualification process for the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship. It was held in Cairo and Suez Egypt between 10 and 21 February 2010.


2010 African Women's Handball Cup Winners' Cup
The 2010 African Women's Handball Cup Winners' Cup was the 26th 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 April 7–17, 2010, at the Palais des Sports de Ouagadougou in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contested by 8 teams and won by Atlético Petróleos de Luanda of Angola.


2010 African Youth Games
The 1st African Youth Games took place in Rabat, Morocco's capital city from 13 to 18 July 2010. The games are targeting young African athletes, both girls and boys of 15–17 years, and about 16 sports codes will be featured at the continental event. athletics, basketball, boxing, fencing, football, gymnastics, Judo, rowing, swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, swimming and gymnastics. The Games was organised by the ANOCA as a prelude to the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the first olympic youth games to be held in Singapore in August. Tunisia finished leader in the medal table standings.


2010 African Youth Games, Sports
Sixteen sports were contested in this edition of African Youth Games.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season
The 2010 season for Ag2r–La Mondiale began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Chrono des Nations. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the ProTour. The team's manager was former cyclist Vincent Lavenu, who had been its leader since its origination in 1992.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, One-day races, Spring classics
The team has been moderately successful with several different riders in single day racing. At the Trofeo Laigueglia in February, Dessel was the team's top finisher, coming in eighth in a mass sprint finish. Later that month, Roche finished on the podium at the Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano, coming in third in an 11-man finish. Riblon won Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche at the end of February. This was the first year that race had been held as a fully professional event.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, One-day races, Spring classics
On the same day, Bouet was fourth at the Gran Premio di Lugano, as he was one of relatively few riders who continued on after others left in a protest over the lack of security on the course. Goddaert was fifth overall at Le Samyn in March, and Mondory ninth, staying with a leading group that was depleted by repeated attacks in the race's final kilometers.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, One-day races, Spring classics
At the Route Adélie de Vitré in April, Mondory finished fourth overall, in the first chase group behind solo winner Cyril Gautier. Ravard led home the second group on the road, for ninth place. Later in the month, he attained ninth in a mass sprint finish in the Scheldeprijs and finished on the podium at Tro-Bro Léon with third place in a winning breakaway.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, One-day races, Spring classics
The team has also sent squads to the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, Montepaschi Strade Bianche, Gent–Wevelgem, Milan–San Remo, Cholet-Pays de Loire, Dwars door Vlaanderen, E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke, Paris–Camembert, the Grand Prix de Denain, the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne but their best result from this group of races was 13th, in E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke from Mondory and in the Grand Prix de Denain from Ravard.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Stage races
The team's season began in Africa with La Tropicale Amissa Bongo. The race was dominated by French teams, including Ag2r, which took two stage wins. Later in the month of January, at the UCI ProTour's first event of the season, the Tour Down Under, Ag2r won the teams classification. In February, Nocentini took his first victory and first stint in a leader's jersey since he spent a week atop the 2009 Tour de France when he won the first stage of the Tour du Haut Var. Nocentini had also finished second overall at the Tour Méditerranéen, but his strong early season was derailed when he broke his leg at the Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano. In March, the team won the teams classification at another high-profile event in the UCI World Calendar – Paris–Nice.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Stage races
The team was very successful at the Circuit de la Sarthe in April. Ravard finished fourth in a mass sprint finish to the first stage and then won the road race portion of the second day's split stage, attaining a lead in the event's points classification that proved unassailable. Krivtsov was the last rider out front from a morning breakaway in stage 3; though he was unable to stay away and win the stage, he took maximum points on each of the day's hill climbs. He maintained the lead in the mountains classification through the conclusion of the race. Ravard capped off a successful event for the team by winning the field sprint finish to stage 4.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Stage races
The team has also sent squads to the Tour of Qatar, the Tour of Oman, Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, Critérium International, Three Days of De Panne, Tirreno–Adriatico, the Volta a Catalunya, and the Tour de Romandie, but did not obtain a stage win, podium finish, or classification win in any of them.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Ag2r was one of 22 teams which participated in the Giro d'Italia. They were not competitive in the beginning of the Giro in the Netherlands, as they did not have any riders contesting the sprint finishes to stage 2 or 3 and their highest-placed rider after three stages was Alexander Efimkin in 37th. Their fortunes did not improve upon the Giro's transfer to Italy, as they were last of the 22 teams in the stage 4 team time trial.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Efimkin gave the team its first top ten in a stage when he finished near the front of the peloton, for ninth, on stage 6, which was won by a breakaway. However, this stage was also costly for the team, as their squad leader Bonnafond was forced to retire from the Giro after crashing and sustaining a gash near his right eye.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Stage 7 was hilly and raced on unpaved roads, and happened to be run on a day with heavy rain. On this day, Gadret began to reveal himself as one of the more consistent riders in the Giro's tougher stages, navigating the mud and the attacks well to finish seventh 29 seconds behind stage winner Cadel Evans. Gadret led the peloton across the finish line on Monte Terminillo the next day, gaining a second on them in the process.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In stage 10, Garmin–Transitions leadout man Julian Dean rode so effectively in the stage's final kilometer that just nine riders, Dean included, were together for the sprint finish. Ag2r had a man in this group, Chavanel, though he finished only sixth. A colossal breakaway group formed in stage 11, and Ag2r had two riders, Dupont and Efimkin, placed in it. The group splintered as the long and rainy stage wore on, but Efimkin finished fifth on the day, just seven seconds behind the stage winner and 13 minutes better than the peloton.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The time gain moved him to sixth in the overall standings. Efimkin retained the placing for two days, but was quickly dropped on the climb to Monte Grappa in stage 14 and lost over 13 minutes. The next day, on the Giro's toughest climb, Monte Zoncolan, Gadret finished among the best, tenth on the day and three minutes behind stage winner and eventual Giro champion Ivan Basso. Gadret was third in the climbing time trial to Plan de Corones in stage 16, one of only two riders within a minute of Stefano Garzelli's winning time.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Efimkin made another winning breakaway in stage 17, though he was unable to stay with the leaders when the group started to fragment near the end of the stage. He finished the day fifth behind stage winner Damien Monier and eight minutes better than the front riders in the peloton. In stages 19 and 20, Gadret again climbed fairly well, finishing fifth and then seventh in the Giro's last two road race stages.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
He rode most of the Passo del Mortirolo in stage 19 with Carlos Sastre and was part of the second finishing group on the road that tried unsuccessfully to lead then-race leader David Arroyo to the line fast enough to keep the pink jersey on his shoulders. His seventh place in stage 20 meant he stayed with the Giro's very best for most of the stage, fading only slightly in the final climb to the Passo del Tonale.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Though Ag2r did not actually win anything in the Giro, and never held any leader's jersey during the race, they were one of only three teams (the others being Liquigas–Doimo and Rabobank) to finish with three riders in the top 20 of the overall standings. These were Gadret in 13th, Efimkin in 19th, and Dupont in 20th. They finished fourth in the Trofeo Fast Team standings and sixth in the Trofeo Super Team.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Roche led the squad Ag2r sent to the Tour de France. Lavenu stated that the team did not harbor any expectations for a high overall placing, while recognizing that Roche was their best chance for them. Roche also had a stage win as one of his goals. Having worked most of the season to recover from the fractured tibia he sustained at the Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano, Nocentini also made the squad, along with time trial specialists Elmiger and Champion.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The team took a high placing in stage 2, as Bouet was the first rider across the finish line after solo breakaway rider Sylvain Chavanel won the stage, but it was meaningless. This was because it had come after race leader Fabian Cancellara negotiated with race organizers for a neutralization of the stage after many riders had crashed, including his team leader and overall Tour favorite Andy Schleck. Mondory placed fifth in the stage 5 mass sprint, behind Mark Cavendish in his first 2010 Tour stage win.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The team took two of the top ten spots in stage 10, as a result of two very different performances. Bouet made the morning breakaway, but was unable to stay with Sérgio Paulinho and Vasil Kiryienka, who contested the stage, finishing three minutes back of them in sixth. In the closing kilometers of the stage, Roche put in an attack from the peloton that gained him a minute and 21 seconds, crossing the line seventh on the day. The attack moved him up four places, from 17th to 13th, in the general classification. Mondory took another low placing in a mass sprint the next day, 8th in stage 11.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The team took their one victory for this Tour in stage 14, when Riblon was the last survivor of the morning breakaway and crossed the finish line around a minute ahead of the race's top overall riders. Riblon rode both the Port de Pailhères and the stage-concluding climb to Ax-3-Domaines alone at the head of the race. Stage 15 was well known for the controversy involving the Tour's top riders Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador, but the Ag2r team was also involved in some minor controversy.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Roche, who had been all but named by Lavenu as the team's leader for the race, punctured while climbing the Port de Balès. His nearest teammate, Gadret, not only refused to give him his wheel, but also took pulls at the front of the group so that it rode further and further away from Roche. Gadret's group finished over three minutes ahead of Roche's, and the Irishman fell three places to 17th in the overall standings.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Lavenu was furious with Gadret for his actions, which led to speculation over whether the two riders would be included on the same squad for future races. In this same stage, Mondory led the first large group on the road across the finish line, for fourth on the day. The team did not have a high stage placing for the remainder of the Tour. Roche finished the race in 15th place, as the team's best-placed rider. He was pleased to finish 15th, while nonetheless ruing the time lost on the Port de Balès which potentially may not have been lost. The squad finished fourth in the teams classification.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
Roche was the squad's leader for the Vuelta a España. The squad was 17th of the 22 teams in the stage 1 team time trial, finishing with the minimum of five riders together 33 seconds off the winning time put up by Team HTC–Columbia. The third stage, an unusually early mountain stage, provided for some early definition to the race's overall standings. Roche finished sixth in this stage, 15 seconds back of solo stage winner Philippe Gilbert, and moved from 101st up to 25th overall with his time gain against most of the field.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
In another hilly stage the next day, Roche was eighth in Valdepeñas de Jaén, losing 12 seconds to stage winner Igor Antón but moving up in the standings again to occupy 11th at the day's end. The top of the overall standings remained unchanged until stage 8, the next mountain stage. On the final climb to Xorret de Catí, Roche finished 15th, two minutes back of stage winner David Moncoutié but still moved up into seventh overall with the result, thanks to other riders losing still more time. The next stage was hilly, and Roche lost four seconds to Ezequiel Mosquera on the Alcoy climb, falling to eighth overall before the first rest day while Mosquera moved into seventh.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
In stage 11 in Vallnord in Andorra three days later, Roche lost 51 seconds to stage winner Igor Antón and fell to ninth. Roche turned in a very strong ride in stage 14, finishing fifth 34 seconds back of stage winner Joaquim Rodríguez to occupy that same position in the overall standings. Roche lost 32 seconds to the race's top riders the next day on the mammoth Lagos de Covadonga climb, falling back to sixth as Team HTC–Columbia's Peter Velits moved past him in the standings. The two swapped places again after stage 16, when Roche finished better than Velits.


2010 Ag2r–La Mondiale season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
Roche had a poor time trial in Peñafiel in stage 17, finishing 38th on the day and dropping to eighth overall. When Garmin–Transitions' Tom Danielson lost time in stage 19, Roche moved back up to seventh. He held this position on the Bola del Mundo in stage 20, finishing sixth on that day. He finished the Vuelta in that position the next day, just over five minutes back of Vuelta champion Vincenzo Nibali. It was the best Grand Tour finish for an Irish cyclist since Sean Kelly won the Vuelta in 1988. The squad finished fifth in the teams classification.


2010 Aguas Buenas earthquake
The 2010 Aguas Buenas earthquake, also referred to as the 2010 Christmas Eve earthquake (Spanish: Temblor de Nochebuena de 2010), occurred on December 24 at 7:43 p.m. local time in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. It measured 5.1 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). The event was the largest in Puerto Rico since May 16th of the same year, and the largest to impact the San Juan metropolitan area since 1975. The earthquake was felt throughout the island of Puerto Rico, the island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, the American and British Virgin Islands, and even in the Dominican Republic across the Mona Passage.


2010 Aguas Buenas earthquake, Earthquake
The shock originated in the Great Northern Puerto Rico fault zone (GNPRfz) in the central eastern mountainous region of the island between the Juan Asencio and Sonadora barrios of Aguas Buenas, about 7 miles (11 km) from Caguas and 14 miles (23 km) from San Juan. This fault zone is located in the boundary between the North American and Caribbean plate tectonics, on a complex geologic zone with both subduction and strike faults. It was initially reported as measuring 5.4 on the Richter magnitude scale. The main shock was followed by two aftershocks (4.8 and 4.7) about 30 minutes after.


2010 Aguas Buenas earthquake, Earthquake
Given its moderate size and its epicenter being located on land, the earthquake did not cause any tsunami. The strongest shaking was felt in the municipalities of Aguas Buenas, Bayamón, San Lorenzo and Caguas, and moderate to strong shaking was felt throughout the San Juan metropolitan area. There were more than 4,000 initial entries on the USGS and the Puerto Rico Seismic Network "Did you feel it? reports".


2010 Aguas Buenas earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake was felt by most due to its epicenter on land close to some of the major urban areas of Puerto Rico and the fact that it hit during Christmas Eve celebrations when people are usually gathered in large family groups, often indoors or attending church services. There were more than 50 emergency calls in Bayamón and Guaynabo.


2010 Aguas Buenas earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
The earthquake was widely felt throughout Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. There were initial reports of limited localized damages throughout the island, particularly in the municipalities of Adjuntas, Aguas Buenas, Arecibo, Arroyo, Ceiba, Coamo, Fajardo, Humacao, Juncos, Las Marías, Las Piedras, Mayagüez, Naranjito, Patillas, Salinas and San Lorenzo. There were reports of power outages in Aguas Buenas and Caguas. There were no deaths or major damages and there were no reports of life-threatening injuries.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre
The May 2010 Lahore attacks, also referred to as the Lahore massacre, occurred on 28 May 2010, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, during Friday prayers. 94 people were killed and more than 120 others were injured in nearly simultaneous attacks against two mosques of the minority Ahmadiyya muslim community. After the initial attack, a hostage situation lasted for hours. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, as well as their Punjab wing, claimed responsibility for the attacks and were also blamed by the Pakistani Police.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Background
The Ahmadiyya movement was started in 1889 and follows the teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad whom they believe was sent by God as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi prophesied in Islam "to end religious wars, condemn bloodshed and re-institute morality, justice and peace." It is estimated there are between 3-4 million Ahmadis in Pakistan.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Background
The Ahmadiyya Muslims have previously been targeted by Sunni groups, while they have also suffered discrimination in Pakistan in the past, most significantly during the Lahore riots of 1953. Pakistan does not recognize the Ahmadis as Muslim, because it is claimed the latter do not recognize the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad, a core tenet of mainstream Islam.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Background
They were declared non-Muslim in Pakistan in 1973 by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and were legally banned from identifying themselves as such in 1984 during General Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization as per Ordinance XX, despite Ahmadis calling themselves Muslim and following the rituals of Islam. The ban occurred when jihadist ideology became embedded in Pakistan's state and education system. The media in Pakistan are legally barred from referring to an Ahmadi place of worship as a mosque.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Background
Human rights groups in Pakistan said that they had warned of threats to the Ahmadi community center in Model Town for more than a year, saying the government took inadequate steps to provide security.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Background
The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Asma Jahangir; an independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall; and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, claimed that because Ahmadis have been declared non-Muslims and have been subject to a number of restrictions, in many instances institutionalized discrimination, opinion makers are emboldened to seek to fuel hatred, and perpetrators of attacks against religious minorities find cannon fodder. According to Minority Rights Group International, Pakistan had the world's highest increase of threats against minorities last year and was ranked the sixth most dangerous country for minorities overall.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Background
Lahore has also been the site of various interval attacks by militants, including on visiting Sri Lankan cricketers and the police academy, amongst others.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Background, Follow-up
An Ahmadi man was stabbed to death, while his son was there, watching, when a trespasser attacked them. It was said that the assailant threatened not to leave any Ahmadi alive after hearing a mullah's sermon on television.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Background, Follow-up
Gunmen also attacked a hospital, on the same day, in which some of the injured from the mosque attack were being treated. It is unclear whether the gunmen were trying to free one of their own who was also being treated in the hospital or trying to kill him. The gunmen indiscriminately started to fire in the hospital, killing twelve people.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Attack
The perpetrators lobbed grenades and started firing as they attacked mosques of the minority Ahmadi Muslim community in two different residential neighborhoods. The near simultaneous attacks were at Darul Zikr, Garhi Shahu and Bait-al Noor. Lack of security meant they easily infiltrated both the Mosques in Lahore Model Town and in Garhi Shahu, 15 km apart.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Attack
The attackers at Garhi Shahu, including two would-be suicide bombers, entered the mosque without any resistance, before storming into the prayer halls firing guns, throwing grenades. The assault at Model Town involved two attackers opening fire on worshippers before exploding hand grenades. The attackers did not take any hostages and killed indiscriminately.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Attack
The Elite Police arrived once the attackers had entered the mosques but did not launch an operation, while the two attackers  blew themselves up after the attack in Garhi Shahu which lasted four hours. Two militants were involved in each of the attacks.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Attack
In Model Town, both the attackers were captured alive as they were overpowered by some of the worshippers; one of the attackers was captured on the first floor by some of the young members of the Ahmadiyya Jammat i.e. Khuddam, and one was overpowered in the main hall on the ground floor by a worshiper who was an ex-army officer. At one time up to 3000 people were reported to be in the mosque during the attack. This is considered the deadliest attack on Ahmadi Muslims.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Attack, Funeral
Many victims of the two attacks were taken to the city of Chenab Nagar, the headquarters of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Pakistan, for funeral services. However, it was noted that ministers, politicians and prominent figures did not attend the funeral services, although many made statements condemning the attacks. Media were absent from the burial ceremonies. There were also complaints that authorities did not provide adequate security for the funeral ceremony at Rabwah. Observers said this was largely due to the fear of a backlash as the Ahmadis have the legal status of "non-Muslims" in Pakistan. A politician said that "only to call a dead Ahmadi a martyr is enough to send you behind bars for three years under the laws of the land."


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Investigation
Rana Sana Ullah Khan, the minister of law in Punjab, said the attackers stayed with the Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim missionary group. Its headquarters are in Raiwind, on the outskirts of Lahore. He also added that he believed the attackers, who operated as commandos, had been trained in Waziristan.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Investigation
On 5 July 2010, Pakistani police arrested six men, members of the banned group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, believed to be linked to the attack. The men were in possession of 18,000 kg of explosives, 21 grenades, six AK-47 rifles, as well as bomb-making material, and four of the men are alleged to have been logistical supporters to the attack.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Responsibility
The Punjabi Taliban, a subset wing of the Pakistani Taliban reportedly laid claim to the attacks. It is allegedly composed of groups like Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi,  which were previously sponsored by the Government of Pakistan. An SMS sent to many journalists and signed by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan as well as the Punjabi wing of Al-Qaeda stated that "This is a final warning to the Ahmedi community to leave Pakistan or prepare for death at the hands of the Prophet Muhammad's devotees."


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Responsibility
The Lahore police also stated that the attacks were carried out by six militants belonging to Pakistani Taliban, who were trained in the town of  Miranshah in North Waziristan. They were aged between 17 and 28 and arrived in Lahore on May 21.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Responsibility
It has been claimed that the reason the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan attacked Ahmadi mosques was because Al Qaeda wished to gain public support in Pakistan. Al Qaeda have been launching attacks on Shia congregations in the past, but a majority of Sunnis did not endorse these attacks.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Responsibility
Brigadier Saad said that by attacking a "community that is not liked by most of (sic) Sunni Muslims belonging to [the] Deobandi and Barelvi schools of thought, the terror network has attempted to win some sort of support from these groups" and that also because of the attack "at least close to two million those who study at Deobandi madrassahs across Pakistan would definitely have some kind of “favorable” opinion about al Qaeda." Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan vowed to launch more such attacks on what it called "infidels."


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Reactions
In a joint statement with three United Nations human rights experts, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said "Members of this religious community have faced continuous threats, discrimination and violent attacks in Pakistan. There is a real risk that similar violence might happen again unless advocacy of religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence is adequately addressed. The Government must take every step to ensure the security of members of all religious minorities and their places of worship so as to prevent any recurrence of today’s dreadful incident." Ban's spokesperson expressed condemnation and extended his condolences to the families of the victims and to the Government.


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Reactions
The United States ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, issued an unusually strong statement saying Pakistan had witnessed an increase in "provocative statements that promote intolerance and are an incitement to extremist violence."


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Reactions
An editorial published in Dawn condemned the attacks, commenting that "Bigotry in this country has been decades in the making and is expressed in a variety of ways. Violence by individuals or groups against those who hold divergent views may be the most despicable manifestation of such prejudice but it is by no means the only one. Religious minorities in Pakistan have not only been shunted to the margins of society but also face outright persecution on a regular basis."


2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, Reactions
In a statement made after the attacks the Interior Minister of Pakistan Rehman Malik admitted that militant groups were deeply entrenched in the southern part of Punjab and were destabilizing the country. He, however, ruled out the possibility of military offensive in Punjab against these militants.


2010 Air Force Falcons football team
The 2010 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by fourth-year head coach Troy Calhoun and played their home games at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They were members of the Mountain West Conference.


2010 Air Force Falcons football team
During their games against Navy and Army, the Falcons wore a special uniform design modeled after the flying suits and helmets worn by the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, with each player's nameplate featuring either the word "SERVICE" or "FREEDOM". Air Force defeated both Navy and Army, winning them the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy for the first time since 2002.


2010 Air Force Falcons football team
They finished the season 9–4, 5–3 in Mountain West play. They were invited to the Independence Bowl, where they defeated Georgia Tech, 14–7.


2010 Air Guard 400
The 2010 Air Guard 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on September 11, 2010 at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 400 laps, it was the twenty-sixth and final race leading into the Chase for the Sprint Cup in the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. Denny Hamlin won the race for the Joe Gibbs Racing team; his teammate, Kyle Busch, finished second while Jimmie Johnson clinched third.


2010 Air Guard 400
Carl Edwards won the pole position, holding the lead until lap 51 when Johnson passed him. Hamlin, however, was the dominant driver for most of the race, taking the lead on lap 110 and leading the most laps throughout the race (251). There were three cautions and fourteen lead changes among six different drivers throughout the course of the race.


2010 Air Guard 400
It was Hamlin's sixth win of the season and the fifteenth of his career. The result of having six wins moved him into first in the Drivers' Championship, ten points ahead of Johnson and thirty ahead of Kevin Harvick to begin the 2010 Chase for the Sprint Cup. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, twenty-nine ahead of Toyota and sixty-eight ahead of Ford, with ten races remaining in the season. A total of 95,000 people attended the race, while 5.288 million watched it live on television.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Background
Richmond International Raceway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Bristol Motor Speedway, Dover International Speedway, Martinsville Speedway, and Phoenix International Raceway. The NASCAR race makes use of the track's standard configuration, a four-turn short track oval that is 0.75 miles (1.21 km) long. The track's turns are banked at fourteen degrees; the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at eight degrees while the back stretch has two degrees of banking.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Background
Before the race, Kevin Harvick led the Drivers' Championship with 3,585 points, and Jeff Gordon followed in second with 3,366 points. Kyle Busch was third in the Drivers' Championship with 3,325 points, Tony Stewart was fourth with 3,302 points, and Carl Edwards was fifth with 3,288 points. Five additional drivers had clinched spots in the Chase—in order of placement, Jeff Burton, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Matt Kenseth, and Denny Hamlin. Greg Biffle, who was 11th in the standings with 3,110 points, needed only a finish of 42nd place in the race to secure his spot in the Chase.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Background
Clint Bowyer, in the final Chase spot of 12th in the standings with 3,066 points, clinched his spot with a race finish of 28th or better. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 182 points, thirty-two points ahead of their rival Toyota. Ford, with 116 points, was fourteen points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third. Hamlin was the race's defending champion.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Background
This race was sponsored by the Air National Guard. Going into the race, Col. Mary Salcido, director of recruiting and retention for the Air National Guard, expressed his belief that the sponsorship would allow the organization to achieve its recruitment goals; saying that "with NASCAR having one of the largest fan bases next to the NFL, the marketing and number of people that an event like this reaches are in the millions."


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
Two practice sessions was held before the Saturday race—both on Friday. The first session lasted 120 minutes, while the second session lasted 45 minutes. During the first practice session, Bowyer was quickest with a time of 22.007 seconds. Ryan Newman placed second, ahead of Juan Pablo Montoya, Edwards, and David Reutimann in the third, fourth and fifth positions respectively. In the second and final practice session, Edwards was quickest ahead of Paul Menard and Montoya in second and third. Biffle was scored fourth ahead of Kasey Kahne in fifth.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
During qualifying, forty-eight cars were entered, but only forty-three were able to race because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure. Edwards clinched his sixth career pole position, with a time of 21.133 seconds. He was joined on the front row of the grid by Montoya. A. J. Allmendinger qualified third, Bowyer took fourth, and Reutimann started fifth. The five drivers who failed to qualify for the race were Terry Labonte, Michael McDowell, Todd Bodine, Scott Riggs, and Brian Keselowski. Labonte, however, replaced Mike Bliss during the race.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
Following the qualifying session, Edwards stated, "There's really no pressure. It's just go out and have fun, try not to run into Clint Bowyer or any of those guys that have a lot on the line. I think the key for us is to just go out and win a race. While the pressure's off, you can go out and you can take risks and race harder and sometimes you get a chance to perform really well. That's just what we need to start the Chase."


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
After qualifying fourth, Bowyer predicted that teams would utilize several different strategies as the race went on: "Some teams can afford to take gambles — fuel mileage-wise, tire-wise, strategy-wise. That separates the race out. It really shakes things up. At the end of the races you are going to see guys keeping track position and doing whatever it takes to be up front to have that opportunity to win."


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Race
The race, the twenty-sixth out of a total of thirty-six in the season, began at 7:30 pm EDT and was televised live in the United States on ABC. Before the race, conditions were sunny with a temperature of 82 °F (28 °C). Chaplain Rick Jenkins began pre-race ceremonies by giving the invocation. Next, Synthia Seymour performed the national anthem, and Lieutenant General Harry Wyatt III gave the command for drivers to start their engines. On the pace laps, Mattias Ekström moved to the rear on the grid, after changing his engine. As part of the procedure for replacing Bliss for the race, Labonte also had to concede his original starting position to the rear.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Race
Edwards retained his pole position lead into the first corner, followed by Montoya in the second position. After two laps of racing, Brad Keselowski had moved up two positions into sixth on the grid. Two laps later, Allmendinger passed Montoya to claim the second position, but on lap seven, Montoya regained the position. Johnson, after nine laps, had moved from his starting position of eleventh to seventh. By lap 12, Edwards had a 1.31 second lead over Montoya. Two laps later, Johnson moved into the fifth position, as he passed Reutimann. After starting twelfth, Kenseth had moved into the tenth position by lap 21.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Race
Four laps later, Kyle Busch, who started thirtieth, had moved up to twenty-fifth. On lap 27, Jamie McMurray moved into nineteenth, passing Mark Martin, as Montoya was catching Edwards. Stewart moved into the ninth position, after passing Menard. After starting twenty-first, Kurt Busch had moved to eleventh by lap 35. Nine laps later, Bowyer passed Allmendinger, as Johnson passed moved into the third position. On lap 50, Johnson passed Montoya for second. Then, one lap later, he claimed the first position after passing Edwards. On lap 55, Reutimann had a flat tire, which prompted the first caution to be given. All the drivers on the lead lap made their pit stops, as Edwards reclaimed the lead on pit road.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Race
On the lap 62 restart, Edwards and Johnson were first and second respectively. Two laps later, Bowyer claimed second away from Johnson, as Stewart moved into the fourth position. Stewart then moved into the third position, as Johnson fell to fourth. Kurt Busch had moved into the seventh position by lap 76. Fifteen laps after the restart, Edwards had a 1.11 second lead over Bowyer. On lap 80, Johnson reclaimed third, from Stewart, as McMurray moved into thirteenth, after passing Menard. Ten laps later, Hamlin moved into the fifth position. After starting twenty-fifth, Burton had moved to twelfth by lap 95. On lap 100, Bowyer passed Edwards to become the new leader.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Race
Hamlin, then moved into the second position, after passing Johnson and Edwards, by lap 107. Three laps later, Hamlin passed Bowyer to become the new leader. On lap 119, Kurt Busch moved into the ninth position. Eleven laps after Hamlin claimed the lead, he had a lead of 2.1 seconds over Bowyer. On lap 125, Johnson reclaimed the third position. Two laps later, Burton moved into eleventh. On lap 135, Hamlin managed a lead of 3.3 seconds. After starting thirty-third, Kyle Busch had moved into the tenth position by lap 137. Eight laps later, the second caution was given because of the debris from Terry Labonte's collision with the wall. Hamlin remained the leader during pit stops.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Race
Hamlin led going in the first corner on the restart, but Johnson, who restarted third, emerged in the first position two laps later. Hamlin, then reclaimed the lead a lap later. On lap 158, Allmendinger fell to fourth, as Bowyer passed him. Five laps later, Bowyer claimed second away from Johnson. On lap 172, Kyle Busch moved into the seventh position, as Bowyer passed Hamlin for the lead. Six laps later, Kyle Busch passed Montoya to move to the sixth position. Afterwards, Hamlin reclaimed the lead from Bowyer. On lap 180, Kyle Busch moved into the fifth position. Hamlin, on lap 181, fell to second, as Bowyer and him battle for the lead. Nineteen laps later, Hamlin battled Bowyer to become the leader. On lap 203, Johnson moved into the second position, after passing Bowyer.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Race
Ten laps later, Hamlin had a lead of 1.2 seconds over Johnson. On lap 216, Harvick moved to the eighth position, as Newman moved into ninth. On lap 226, light rain showers arrived, prompting NASCAR officials to give the third caution. All the leaders, except Jeff Burton made pit stops on lap 228. Ten laps later, he gave up the lead to Hamlin because of him making a pit stop. Hamlin led during the restart, as Bowyer moved into second. On lap 249, Newman passed Stewart for the eighth position. Nine laps later, Kyle Busch moved into the fourth position. On lap 270, Allmendinger fell to the sixth position, as Joey Logano passed Marcos Ambrose for twelfth.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Race
On lap 273, Kenseth reported to his crew that he was having car handling problems. Eight laps later, Logano moved into ninth, after passing Stewart. By lap 285, Newman had caught Allmendinger for sixth. Fifteen laps later, Logano moved into the seventh position. On lap 306, Dale Earnhardt Jr., who was four laps behind the leader, came to pit road. By lap 309, Hamlin had a 1.3 second lead over Bowyer. Hamlin had increased his lead from 1.3 seconds to 2.21 in only eight laps. On lap 320, Montoya came to pit road, as green flag pit stops began. On lap 328, Montoya passed Hamlin for the first position after the latter came to pit road. Four laps later, Hamlin reclaimed the lead, ahead of Montoya, Bowyer, Johnson and Kyle Busch in the top five positions.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Race
On lap 336, Kyle Busch overtook Montoya for second. On lap 345, Logano moved into the sixth position. On lap 350, Bowyer overtook Montoya for third. After 359 laps, there were only eighteen cars on the same lap as the leader. On lap 366, Logano had caught Montoya (who had since fallen to fifth), but he would not pass him until four laps later. On lap 380, Johnson was in third, 2.5 seconds behind Hamlin. With twenty laps remaining, Hamlin had a lead of 1.2 seconds over Kyle Busch. Hamlin maintained this lead, crossing the line to win the race ahead of Busch, who followed in second. Johnson maintained third while Logano and Ambrose finished fourth and fifth.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Post-race
Hamlin appeared in victory lane to celebrate his sixth win of the season in front of 95,000 people who attended the race. Hamlin also earned $219,975 in race winnings, and he later expressed his confidence heading into the Chase: "It's been an up-and-down year, but there's been a lot of ups, and obviously we're going to enter this Chase No. 1. It means a lot to this whole race team. A lot of people bashed this race team about 'can't finish this, and can't finish that.' But we've got the most wins, and hopefully that's going to carry us for the 10 weeks in the Chase."


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Post-race
After finishing second, Kyle Busch was asked if he thought he had a car capable of contending for wins on a regular basis. He replied, "Not right now. Every single week, we're always a tenth-and-a-half (of a second), two-tenths off." Bowyer, who finished sixth, clinched the final Chase spot and explained, "I was trying to make a statement -- I wanted to win.


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Post-race
And I thought we had a shot at winning, but we just got behind and never could get it back, and that's when you need to start thinking, 'I need to take care of business -- I don't need to go out here and make a mistake and take a shot at getting ourselves knocked out of this deal.' So we did what we had to do."


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Post-race
Johnson, meanwhile, was pleased with his third-place finish and was also optimistic about his championship chances: "I know the tracks on the schedule, and we all know how good they are for me, and they all give me a lot of hope and excitement moving forward. I don't think that I'm any different this year than last year. Stats may show that maybe this year I'm in better shape than I was last year. ... Either way, I know we've got great tracks coming up, I know we respond well to pressure, and I'm excited for it. I feel good about things."


2010 Air Guard 400, Report, Post-race
The race result left Hamlin leading the Drivers' Championship with 5,060 points after the standings were reset for the Chase. Johnson was second on 5,050, twenty points ahead of Harvick, Kyle Busch, and Kurt Busch. Stewart and Biffle followed in a tie for sixth, ten points ahead of Jeff Gordon, Edwards, and Burton. Kenseth and Bowyer rounded out the top twelve in points. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet maintained their lead with 188 points. Toyota remained second with 159 points, having gained three points on their rival. Ford followed with 120 points, fifteen points ahead of Dodge in fourth. 5.288 million people watched the race live on television.


2010 Air Service Berlin Douglas C-47 crash
On 19 June 2010, a vintage Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from Berlin Schönefeld Airport for a sightseeing flight over Berlin, which was operated by Air Service Berlin, a provider of event flights. There were no fatalities, but seven out of the 28 passengers and crew were injured.


2010 Air Service Berlin Douglas C-47 crash, Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (registered D-CXXX, serial number 16124/32872), a preserved Rosinenbomber (English: Raisin bomber). It had been built in 1944 and was powered by two Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 engines. It had participated in the 1948–49 Berlin Airlift, and because of the importance of this event for the city of Berlin it was acquired for sightseeing flights in 2000. The aircraft was one of the last two aircraft to take off from Berlin Tempelhof Airport (one of the Airlift airports) when it was closed on 30 October 2008.


2010 Air Service Berlin Douglas C-47 crash, Accident
Shortly after take-off at around 15:00 local time from Berlin Schönefeld Airport for a sightseeing flight over the city centre of Berlin, the left engine failed and the aircraft was unable to gain height. The pilots went into a left turn and set down the aircraft into a field near the construction site for the new Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport. There were three crew members and 25 passengers on board (among them Stefan Kaufmann, a Bundestag member), all of which were able to leave the aircraft unassisted. Seven people were injured, four of them were taken to hospital. Schönefeld Airport was closed for fifteen minutes while its emergency services attended the crash scene. A fire that arose from spilled fuel was put out by the airport's firefighters.


2010 Air Service Berlin Douglas C-47 crash, Aftermath
The C-47 aircraft suffered substantial damage to its tail and port wing. Nevertheless, due to its historic significance (and because it was the signature airframe of the company), Air Service Berlin stated that it intended a complete repair and restoration. Donations towards the cost of the restoration had been received from across the world, including a symbolic 100 USD from Gail Halvorsen, the pilot who is attributed to having started the dropping of sweets for children from aircraft participating in the Berlin Airlift. Despite, this, the port wing was salvaged and was sold as limited edition Aviationtags.


2010 Air Untuk Rakyat rally
The 2010 Air Untuk Rakyat rally was a rally held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 5 December 2010. The rally organiser, the Air Untuk Rakyat movement and federal opposition Pakatan Rakyat, had called the protest regarding the privatisation of water management in Selangor state which surrounds the capital, Kuala Lumpur and the federal government's bailout of SYABAS, a water distribution firm controlled by associate of the UMNO-led federal government crony Rozali Ismail. A secondary objective of the rally was to hand over a petition with over 250,000 signatures to the King Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin to intervene against the privatisation of the water services in the state at the Istana Negara.


2010 Air Untuk Rakyat rally
According to various estimates the rally attracted between 2,500 to 10,000 people. The rally started gathering outside the National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur at 9 o'clock, early Sunday morning on 5 December 2010.


2010 Air Untuk Rakyat rally, Police actions
All the roads leading to Istana Negara and the National Mosque were guarded and blocked a day before by police causing a massive traffic jams in various parts of the city. At least 60 people were arrested by the Malaysian police who considered the gathering illegal. The police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd.


2010 Aircel Chennai Open
The 2010 Aircel Chennai Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is the 15th edition of the Chennai Open, and part of the 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It takes place at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Chennai, India, from 4 January through 10 January 2010.


2010 Aircel Chennai Open, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Aircel Chennai Open, Finals, Doubles
Marcel Granollers /  Santiago Ventura defeated  Lu Yen-hsun /  Janko Tipsarević, 7–5, 6–2.


2010 Aircel Chennai Open – Doubles
Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Yves Allegro and Stanislas Wawrinka.


2010 Aircel Chennai Open – Doubles
In the final, Marcel Granollers and Santiago Ventura defeated Lu Yen-hsun and Janko Tipsarević, 7–5, 6–2.


2010 Aircel Chennai Open – Singles
Marin Čilić was the defending champion, and won in the final over Stanislas Wawrinka, 7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–3).


2010 Akron Zips football team
The 2010 Akron Zips football team represented the University of Akron during the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Zips, led by first-year head coach Rob Ianello, competed in the East Division of the Mid-American Conference and played their home games at InfoCision Stadium – Summa Field. They finished the season 1–11, 1–7 in MAC play.


2010 Akron Zips men's soccer team
The 2010 Akron Zips men's soccer team represented the University of Akron during the 2010 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Zips finished the season winning the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship, making it the first time in their history to win the national title.


2010 Akron Zips men's soccer team, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Akron Zips men's soccer team, Statistics, Goalscorers
The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.


2010 Aksu bombing
The 2010 Aksu bombing was a bombing in Aksu, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China that resulted in at least seven deaths and fourteen injuries when an Uyghur man detonated explosives in a crowd of police and paramilitary guards at about 10:30 on 19 August, using a three-wheeled vehicle. The assailant targeted police officers in the area, and most of the victims were also Uyghurs. Xinhua news agency reported that six people were involved in the attack, and two had died; the other four were detained by police.


2010 Aksu bombing, Background
A number of violent incidents have occurred in Xinjiang since the 1990s. In the year before the attack, Xinjiang had ethnic tensions that continued to trouble the region. Before the 2010 Aksu blast, Xinjiang Governor Nur Bekri was quoted as saying Xinjiang faces a "long and fierce and very complicated struggle" because "Separatism in Xinjiang has a very long history, it was there in the past, it is still here now and it will continue in the future."


2010 Aksu bombing, Background
In July 2009, riots in Ürümqi resulted in the deaths of numerous Han Chinese and Uyghurs. There was another spate of attacks in the region a few months later.


2010 Aksu bombing, Attack
The site of the explosion, Aksu (Uighur: ئاقسۇ; Chinese: 阿克苏), is about 650 km (400 mi) west of Urumqi, and is just 60 km (37 mi) from the border with Kyrgyzstan. The bomb exploded at the T-intersection of Kalata Road (Uighur: قالاتا يولى; Chinese: 喀拉塔路) and Wuka Road (Uighur: ئۇكا يولى; Chinese: 乌喀路). According to a report by the Associated Press, two attackers drove a three-wheeled motorbike into a crowd and threw explosives from it. According to reports the attack was carried out by a man, who was arrested on the spot and whom Xinjiang government spokeswoman Hou Hanmin stated is Uyghur, and a woman who died during the attack.


2010 Aksu bombing, Attack
Most of those killed in the blast were local security officers. Five victims died on the spot, and two died at the hospital; of the seven, at least five were police officers. An anonymous Radio Free Asia source claims that officers in the targeted police station had commonly booked Uyghurs with beards or traditional head coverings and brought them to the police station for political education. The ethnicity of the victims was not discussed at the news conference of Aksu prefecture, but Hou told reporters that "most of the victims are U[y]ghurs."


2010 Aksu bombing, Attack
At the time of the conference the incident was not classified as a terrorist attack.


2010 Aksu bombing, Investigation
Chinese police stated that it was an intentional act, and that a suspect was detained at the scene after incurring injuries himself. The four detained suspects were part of a "violent gang of six people" according to Xinjiang government spokesperson Hou Hanmin.


2010 Aksu bombing, Internet censorship
According to one netizen interviewed by Radio Free Asia, mention of the bombing on internet boards, including postings containing the official version of events, have been speedily deleted from the internet in China.


2010 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge
The 2010 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge was a women's tennis tournament on the 2010 ITF Women's Circuit under the tier of the 2010 WTA Tour. It took place in Dubai from 13–19 December. The prize money was US$75,000.


2010 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge, WTA entrants, Other Entrants, Wildcards
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge, Doubles champions
Julia Görges /  Petra Martić def. Sania Mirza /  Vladimíra Uhlířová, 6-4, 7-6(7)


2010 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge – Doubles
Julia Görges and Oksana Kalashnikova were the defending champions, but chose not to defend their title together. Görges played alongside Petra Martić whereas Kalashnikova played with Marta Sirotkina.


2010 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge – Doubles
Kalashnikova and Sirotkina lost in the semifinals to Görges and Martić.


2010 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge – Doubles
Görges and Martić won in the final, beating Sania Mirza and Vladimíra Uhlířová 6-4, 7-6(7).


2010 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge – Singles
Regina Kulikova was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.


2010 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge – Singles
Sania Mirza won in the final, defeating Bojana Jovanovski 4-6, 6-3, 6-0.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team
The 2010 Alabama Crimson Tide Baseball Team represented the University of Alabama in the NCAA Division I baseball season of 2010.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team, Synopsis
Alabama (42-25, 15-15 SEC) began the season with an eight-game winning streak and matched the school record for the best record (16-1) after 17 games. Alabama then lost 14 of its next 20 games with a record of 22-15 by April 19. Alabama then won five straight games in late April, before losing six of eight games following a 5-4 loss to Mississippi on May 14. Alabama closed the regular season with five straight wins, qualifying .


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team, Synopsis
During post-season play, Alabama participated in the 2010 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament (Alabama's 21st appearance) and the 2010 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. In the SEC tournament, Alabama won 3 games, defeating Auburn, Mississippi, and Florida, advancing to the finals where Alabama lost to LSU 4-3 in 11 innings. In the NCAA tournament, Alabama defeated Elon, Mercer, and Georgia Tech, advancing to the finals where Alabama lost to Clemson.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team, Schedule/Results
† Indicates the game does not count toward the 2010 Southeastern Conference Standings. *Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the Baseball America poll the week Alabama faced each opponent.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team, Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2010 MLB Draft
The following members of the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball program were drafted in the 2010 MLB Draft.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 116th overall season, 77th as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and its 19th within the SEC Western Division. The team was led by head coach Nick Saban, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
Alabama entered the season as defending national champions, and began the 2010 season as the preseason number one team in both the AP and Coaches' Polls. Favored to win a second consecutive SEC championship and be in contention for the national championship, the Crimson Tide opened the season with five consecutive victories over San Jose State, Penn State, Duke, Arkansas and Florida. However, Alabama completed the regular season with only nine victories and losses to South Carolina, LSU and Auburn and finished fourth in the Western Division. After the regular season, the Crimson Tide accepted an invitation to compete in the Capital One Bowl in Orlando. Against Big Ten co-champions Michigan State, Alabama won by a final score of 49–7 and captured both a third straight ten win season and top ten finish.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season
During the 2009 campaign, the Crimson Tide finished the season undefeated, 14–0, with wins over several ranked opponents that included No. 7 Virginia Tech, No. 20 Ole Miss, No. 22 South Carolina, No. 9 LSU, No. 1 Florida in the SEC Championship, and No. 2 Texas in the BCS National Championship Game. They finished the season as the consensus National Champions, being voted No. 1 in the AP and Coaches' Polls in securing Alabama's first national title since 1992. In addition to the national title, sophomore running back Mark Ingram became the first Alabama player to win the Heisman Trophy.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season
In February 2010, eighteen players each signed an individual National Letter of Intent to play college football at Alabama. The 2010 recruiting class was ranked nationally in the top five by several recruiting services including Rivals, Scout, ESPNU and CBS College Sports. Spring practice began on March 12 and concluded with the annual A-Day game on April 17. Televised live by ESPN, the Crimson team of offensive starters defeated the White team of defensive starters by a final score of 23–17 before 91,312 fans in Bryant–Denny Stadium.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season
The game was decided after the end of regulation when Brandon Gibson caught a 39-yard touchdown pass from A. J. McCarron in sudden death. For their performances, Marcell Dareus earned the Dwight Stephenson Lineman of the A-Day Game Award and Mark Ingram earned the Dixie Howell Memorial Most Valuable Player of the A-Day Game Award.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season
By August, Alabama had a combined 21 players on 12 different preseason award watch lists.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season
These included both Mark Barron, Marcell Dareus and Dont’a Hightower for the Chuck Bednarik Award; Julio Jones for the Fred Biletnikoff Award; Hightower and Nico Johnson for the Butkus Award; Ingram for the Walter Camp Award; James Carpenter, Dareus and Hightower for the Lombardi Award; Ingram and Greg McElroy for the Maxwell Award; Barron, Dareus and Hightower for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy; McElroy for the Davey O'Brien Award; Carpenter and Barrett Jones for the Outland Trophy; William Vlachos for the Rimington Trophy; Barron for the Jim Thorpe Award; and Ingram for the Doak Walker Award.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season, Returning starters
Alabama had 10 returning starters from the previous season, including eight on offense and two on defense. The most notable departures from the previous year were linebackers Eryk Anders, Rolando McClain and Cory Reamer; cornerbacks Javier Arenas, Kareem Jackson and Marquis Johnson; defensive ends Brandon Deaderick and Lorenzo Washington; nose tackle Terrence Cody; safety Justin Woodall; offensive linemen Drew Davis and Mike Johnson; and tight end Colin Peek. Additionally, all of special teams players were replaced following the departures of punter P.J. Fitzgerald, placekicker Leigh Tiffin, long snapper Brian Selman and Arenas as the return specialist.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season, Recruiting class
Alabama's recruiting class was highlighted by eight players from the "ESPN 150": No. 16 DeMarcus Milliner (CB); No. 32 Phillip Sims (QB); No. 36 John Fulton (CB); No. 54 Adrian Hubbard (DE); No. 74 Chad Lindsay (OG); No. 89 Keiwone Malone (WR); No. 99 C.J. Mosley (OLB); and No. 132 Brian Vogler (TE). Alabama signed the No. 5 recruiting class according to Rivals and the No. 4 recruiting class according to Scout. The football program received 18 letters of intent on National Signing Day, February 3, 2010.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Schedule
The 2010 schedule was officially released on September 2, 2009. 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, Florida, and South Carolina. Alabama did not play SEC opponents Georgia, Kentucky and Vanderbilt. The contest against Ole Miss served as the 2010 homecoming game.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Schedule
Alabama also played four non-conference games. The game against Penn State was originally scheduled as part of the 2004 season, however the series was moved back at the request of Alabama due to fallout from NCAA sanctions being levied on the program. The non-conference schedule also included games against San Jose State of the Western Athletic Conference, Duke of the Atlantic Coast Conference and Georgia State of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). On December 5, it was announced Alabama would face Big Ten co-champion Michigan State in the Capital One Bowl. In what was the first meeting between the programs, the Tide defeated the Spartans 49–7 and secured their third consecutive ten-win season.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Schedule
Alabama played six of its SEC opponents the week following the opponents' bye week. These SEC teams who scheduled a bye week before facing the Crimson Tide included South Carolina, Ole Miss, Tennessee, LSU, Mississippi State and Auburn. Georgia State also had a bye week prior to playing Alabama, for a total of seven consecutive opponents playing Alabama the week following their bye. On July 1, 2010, the game against Georgia State was moved from Saturday, November 20 to Thursday, November 18 to give Alabama additional time to prepare for its game against Auburn. The Sagarin computer ratings calculated Alabama's 2010 strength of schedule to be the fifth most difficult out of the 245 Division I teams. The Cosgrove Computer Rankings calculated it as the 12th most difficult out of the 120 Division I FBS teams in its rankings.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Coaching staff
The only change to the coaching staff from the 2009 season was the departure of James Willis, an associate head and outside linebackers coach, to become the defensive coordinator at Texas Tech. Willis was replaced on the staff with Jeremy Pruitt on January 15. Other assistants that declined positions at other programs included Jim McElwain declining an offer to become San Jose State's head coach and Kirby Smart declining an offer to become Georgia's defensive coordinator.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, San Jose State
The Crimson Tide began their defense of their 2010 BCS championship at home against the San Jose State Spartans, and before a record crowd in a newly expanded Bryant–Denny Stadium, Alabama was victorious 48–3. Alabama scored a touchdown on their first possession on a one-yard Trent Richardson run to complete an eight-play, 71-yard drive. The Spartans responded on the next drive with their only points of the game on a 31-yard Harrison Waid field goal to make the score 7–3.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, San Jose State
On the ensuing drive the Alabama extended their lead to 14–3 with a 48-yard Greg McElroy touchdown pass to Marquis Maze. Alabama again reached the endzone early in the second quarter on a 39-yard Richardson run and a 29-yard A. J. McCarron pass to Julio Jones to make the score 28–3. Cade Foster scored the final points of the half as time expired on a 31-yard field goal to bring the halftime score to 31–3.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, San Jose State
Alabama opened the second half by scoring on their first two possessions. Eddie Lacy scored on a 37-yard run and Foster hit a 24-yard field goal to extend the Crimson Tide lead to 41–3. Lacy scored the final points of the game with a 10-yard run to make the final score 48–3. Both McElroy and McCarron combined to pass for 334 yards on 22 completions and a pair of touchdowns. For the game, the Alabama outgained San Jose in total offense by a margin of 591–175. The 101,821 in attendance marked the first crowd of over 100,000 to attend a football game in the state of Alabama.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Penn State
With ESPN's College GameDay in town, Alabama defeated the Penn State Nittany Lions 24–3 in a renewal of their historic rivalry. Alabama scored first on a 36-yard touchdown pass from Greg McElroy to Kevin Norwood in the first quarter. The Crimson Tide added to their lead in the second quarter with a 14-yard McElroy touchdown pass to Preston Dial and a 31-yard Jeremy Shelley field goal to take a 17–0 lead at the half. After a scoreless third, Trent Richardson scored on a one-yard run and Penn State's Collin Wagner hit a 36-yard field goal to make the final score to 24–3.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Richardson led the team in rushing with 144 yards on 22 carries, and was also the first back to gain over 100 yards on the ground against Penn State since their 2008 game against Iowa. The defense also stood out with Mark Barron, Robert Lester and Will Lowery each making an interception and Alabama only allowing 283 yards of total offense. After compiling 207 all-purpose yards and scoring a touchdown, Richardson was named Co-SEC Offensive Player of the Week with South Carolina's Marcus Lattimore. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Nittany Lions to 9–5.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Duke
In Alabama's first-ever trip to Duke, the Crimson Tide defeated the Blue Devils by a final score of 62–13 in front of the largest crowd at Wallace Wade Stadium since the 1994 season. Playing in his first game of the 2010 season following knee surgery, Mark Ingram ran for a team high 152 yards on nine carries with two touchdowns.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Duke
Greg McElroy completed 14 of 20 passes for 258 yards, with three touchdowns and one interception. In the second quarter Trent Richardson scored Alabama's first special teams touchdown of the season with a 96-yard kickoff return. Other offensive highlights included Richardson gaining 66 yards on seven carries and Eddie Lacy gaining 53 yards on seven carries with each scoring a touchdown on the ground. Through the air, Julio Jones led the team with 106 receiving yards on six catches with he, Darius Hanks and Preston Dial each making a touchdown reception.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Duke
The game also marked the return of Marcell Dareus following a two-game suspension from the NCAA for receiving improper benefits. After allowing 13 points in the first half, the Alabama defense shut out the Duke offense in the second half. The 62 points scored by the Tide were the most since a 62–0 victory over Tulane during the 1991 season, and the 45 points scored in the first half were the most scored in one half since scoring 45 in the second half of the 1973 victory over California. The 626 yards of total offense were the most amassed by an Alabama team since gaining 644 against LSU in 1989. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Blue Devils to 3–1.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Arkansas
In the first game played between two teams ranked in the top ten at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium since the 1979 season, Alabama was victorious with a 24–20 come-from-behind victory. After Ryan Mallett connected on an early touchdown to take a 7–0 lead, Alabama responded with a 54-yard Mark Ingram touchdown run to tie the game at 7–7. Arkansas retook the lead with a field goal and a one-yard Mallett run to take a 17–7 lead at the half. Midway through the third, Arkansas extended their lead to 20–7.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Arkansas
Alabama brought the score to 20–14 late in the third after a 20-yard Trent Richardson touchdown reception from Greg McElroy. The Arkansas lead was then cut to three after a 36-yard Jeremy Shelley field goal with just over 6:00 remaining in the fourth. After Robert Lester intercepted a Mallett pass and returned it to the 12-yard line, Ingram took the next three snaps that culminated in a one-yard touchdown run to take a 24–20 lead.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Arkansas
After a late Dre Kirkpatrick interception, McElroy gained a first down on a fourth and inches quarterback sneak to seal the victory for the Crimson Tide. Ingram led the team with 157 yards rushing on 24 carries and Richardson finished with 85 yards on eight carries. Kirkpatrick led the defense with nine tackles and an interception. For his five-tackle, two-interception performance, Robert Lester was recognized as both the FWAA/Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week and the SEC Defensive Player of the Week. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Razorbacks to 11–8 (14–7 without NCAA vacations and forfeits).


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida
In a rematch of the previous two SEC Championship Games, Alabama defeated the Florida Gators 31–6. Alabama opened the scoring with a 28-yard Jeremy Shelley field goal in the first, and then scored a trio of second-quarter touchdowns. Mark Ingram scored on runs of six and one—yard with the third coming on a 19-yard Marquis Maze touchdown pass to Michael Williams on a wide receiver pass. Florida got on the board late in the second with a 39-yard Chas Henry field goal to bring the halftime score to 24–3. After a second Henry field goal, C. J. Mosley returned an interception 35-yards for a touchdown to make the final score 31–6.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida
Although Florida outgained the Crimson Tide in total offense 281 to 273 yards, their three turnovers resulted in 21 Alabama points. In addition to Mosley, Nico Johnson intercepted Trey Burton in the end zone and Dre Kirkpatrick intercepted a John Brantley pass. The game marked the first time Florida had been held without a touchdown since their previous visit to Tuscaloosa in 2005, and resulted in Alabama leading the nation in scoring defense by allowing only 45 points through five games.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida
Courtney Upshaw was named the SEC Defensive Player of the Week after making seven total tackles, with four for losses, a fumble recovery and two pass deflections. Chance Warmack was recognized as the SEC's Offensive Lineman of the Week for his performance. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Gators to 21–14 (22–14 without the NCAA vacation of the 2005 victory).


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
With ESPN's College GameDay in town and in front of a sold out Williams–Brice, Alabama was upset by the South Carolina Gamecocks 35–21. After Alabama scored on its opening drive with a 32-yard Jeremy Shelley field goal, South Carolina responded with three consecutive touchdowns. Stephen Garcia threw three touchdown passes, with the first to Marcus Lattimore for nine-yards followed by strikes of 26 and 15-yards to Alshon Jeffery, to give South Carolina a 21–3 lead in the second quarter. Alabama reached the end zone late in the second on a nine-yard Greg McElroy pass to Julio Jones to make the halftime score 21–9 after the extra point failed.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
On the first play from scrimmage in the third quarter, Garcia threw the ball out of the end zone for a safety following a bad snap. After the free kick, Alabama scored on a 39-yard Shelley field goal, to make the score 21–14. After a one-yard Lattimore touchdown run, Alabama answered with a 51-yard Darius Hanks touchdown reception from McElroy, to make the score 28–21. However, Lattimore scored on a two-yard touchdown run late in the fourth to give the Gamecocks a 35–21 victory. The win marked South Carolina's first all-time victory over a team ranked number one in the AP poll.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
For the game, McElroy set a career-high in passing for 315 yards on 27 of 34 passes, and Jones had a team high 118 yards on eight catches. Marcell Dareus was recognized as an honorable mention SEC Defensive Player of the Week for his eight tackle performance. The 35 points allowed by the Crimson Tide defense were the most allowed since giving up 41 to LSU in 2007. The loss also marked the end of a 29-game regular season win streak, an overall 19-game win streak, and an 18-game regular season conference winning streak. It was Alabama's first overall loss since being defeated by Utah in the 2009 Sugar Bowl and their first regular season and regular season conference loss since losing to Auburn in 2007. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against the Gamecocks to 10–4 (12–3 without NCAA vacations and forfeits).


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
A week after their first regular season loss since the 2007 season, Alabama defeated their long-time rival, the Ole Miss Rebels on homecoming in Tuscaloosa 23–10. The Crimson Tide took a 10–0 lead in the first quarter on a seven-yard Greg McElroy touchdown pass to Preston Dial and a 49-yard Cade Foster field goal. Scoring continued in the second quarter with Alabama's Jeremy Shelley and Foster connecting on field goals of 19 and 44-yards. Mississippi's Bryson Rose connected on a 22-yard field goal to make the halftime score 16–3. In the third quarter, McElroy connected with Trent Richardson for an 85-yard touchdown reception. The catch was the fourth longest touchdown reception in school history. Later in the quarter, Jeremiah Masoli connected with Melvin Harris on a 15-yard touchdown reception to make the final score 23–10.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
On special teams, Marquis Maze totaled 125 yards on six punt returns and was named SEC Co-Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Rebels to 44–9–2 (48–8–2 without NCAA vacations and forfeits).


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
In the 93rd edition of the Third Saturday in October, the Crimson Tide defeated the Tennessee Volunteers 41–10. Tennessee scored first, on a 59-yard Tauren Poole touchdown run to take an early 7–0 lead. Alabama responded by scoring on its next two drives: a 36-yard Jeremy Shelley field goal, and a one-yard Greg McElroy touchdown run to take a 10–7 lead. The second quarter closed with a 42-yard Shelley field goal and a 33-yard field goal by Michael Palardy of Tennessee to make the halftime score 13–10.


2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
Alabama opened the second half by driving 70 yards in four plays, with Julio Jones having receptions of 38 and 19 yards and Mark Ingram punching in the touchdown from one-yard out to extend their lead to 20–10. After Palardy missed a 52-yard field goal, Trent Richardson ran the ball 65 yards for a touchdown on the second play of the ensuing drive for a 27–10 Alabama lead. Later, Robert Lester intercepted a Matt Simms pass, and Alabama extended its lead to 34–10, after an 80-yard drive with Ingram scoring from one-yard out. Alabama scored the final points of the evening in the fourth quarter when A. J. McCarron hit Richardson for a five-yard touchdown reception to make the final score 41–10. It was Alabama's most lopsided victory over Tennessee since defeating the Volunteers 35–0 in 1963.