2013 Belfast riots, August riots
Violent clashes broke out on the evening of Friday 9 August when loyalists attempted to prevent a parade of 5,000 Irish republican marking the anniversary of internment in 1971 through the city centre. The parade was a joint alliance of dissident groups which included the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, the political wing of the New IRA. It was legally given permission but up to 1,000 loyalists blocked their route at around 6 pm and attacked riot police around Royal Avenue/North Street, and clashes between loyalists and nationalists took place.


2013 Belfast riots, August riots
By an hour later, PSNI officers and armoured vehicles blocked the republican parade in North Queen Street in New Lodge. This would become a second stand-off from the one around Royal Avenue involving loyalists. The parade organisers decided to avoid Royal Avenue and take a route via Carrick Hill and Millfield, near the city centre, towards west Belfast. "Serious disorder" took place on these roads as riot police separated the two groups. The protesters were then pushed back towards the Shankill Road area.


2013 Belfast riots, August riots
The PSNI fired 26 plastic baton rounds and deployed two water cannons. Michael Copeland, an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician, claimed that he and his family members were assaulted by police in Royal Avenue. In total, 56 police officers and two civilians were injured.


2013 Belfast riots, August riots
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers described the violence as "shameful". Within four days the PSNI arrested 90 people of which 66 were charged, and released photos of other wanted offenders.


2013 Belgian Cup Final
The 2013 Belgian Cup Final, named Cofidis Cup after the sponsor, took place on 9 May 2013 between Genk and Cercle Brugge. It was the 58th Belgian Cup final and was won by Genk, with two late goals by Bennard Yao Kumordzi and Jelle Vossen.


2013 Belgian Figure Skating Championships
The 2013 Belgian Figure Skating Championships (Dutch: Belgisch Kampioenschap 2013; French: Championnat de Belgique 2013) took place between 23 and 24 November 2012 in Deurne. Skaters competed in the discipline of ladies' singles on the senior level and men's and ladies' singles across the junior, advanced novice, as well as the age-group levels of minime/miniem A, B, and C.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix
The 2013 Belgian Grand Prix (formally known as the 2013 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race on 25 August 2013 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium. It was the eleventh round of the 2013 season, and the 69th running of the Belgian Grand Prix.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix
The race was won by Sebastian Vettel in a Red Bull-Renault in a time of 1:23:42, registering an average speed of 220.80 km/h, thus extending his championship lead to 46 points. Second was Fernando Alonso in a Ferrari, and third was Lewis Hamilton (who had started from pole) in a Mercedes.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Background
Like the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix, tyre supplier Pirelli brought its orange-banded hard compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the white-banded medium compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Mercedes had taken 7 of the last 8 poles, but in practice, Red Bull had appeared to be the fastest team. A rain shower hit the track right before qualifying got underway, dropping the air temperature to only 22 °C and mixing things up even further.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
All the drivers started the session with intermediates, Lewis Hamilton set the first benchmark of 2:07.008. As the track continued drying, Nico Rosberg, Mark Webber, and Sebastian Vettel all hit the front briefly. After the midpoint, most drivers pitted for a new set of intermediate tyres while Giedo van der Garde took a gamble to switch onto the slicks. As times passing by, lap times improved rapidly, nearly pushed both Ferraris out of Q2. But Fernando Alonso managed to set the fastest time at the last moment and his team-mate Felipe Massa also made it into the next session.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Van der Garde's decision proved a big success, for he impressively finished 3rd. In fact, three of the four drivers from Caterham and Marussia squeezed into Q2, the only one that failed to do so was Charles Pic, who started the race from the last place on the grid. Also eliminated were the Williams duo, the two Toro Rossos, and the Sauber of Esteban Gutiérrez.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
At the beginning of the 15 minutes period, drivers were divided into 2 groups, most of them used mediums, while several others including Webber and Alonso chose the hards. In the opening phase, Webber and Alonso were fighting for the top spot, their gap being merely two thousandths of a second. At the same time, Vettel and Hamilton stayed in the pits until there were about 7 minutes left on the board. After that it was time for mediums, first the two Lotuses, then Sebastian Vettel, all challenging for the first place. But finally Kimi Räikkönen put the fight to an end with a 1:48.296. Eliminated in Q2 were Sauber's Nico Hülkenberg, Force India's Adrian Sutil, McLaren's Sergio Pérez, Caterham's Giedo van der Garde who achieved the team's best qualifying result ever, and both the Marussias.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
In fear of the incoming shower, all bar Paul di Resta queued at the pit exit with medium tyres. However just moments later, the Force India driver opted to use the inters. It soon turned out that the latter was right, as the other 9 drivers didn't even start a flying lap as the track was too wet for slicks and they had to pit immediately. Di Resta then set the fastest lap time, with Felipe Massa in second. Just when it looked like he was going to take his maiden pole position, the track started to dry out.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
As there was 3 minutes left, Räikkönen gave the first shot to come to 3rd, ahead of Alonso. And Rosberg behind them posted a 2:02.251 to take the provisional pole. But none of them could cross the line before the chequered flag. With the ever-improving track, polesitter would be decided among three that still had one timed lap to go—Webber, Vettel, and Hamilton. Webber finished first to reduce the quickest time by almost a second. Then Vettel beat his teammate by a further one tenth of a second, Lewis Hamilton subsequently secured his fourth successive pole. The Lotuses and the Ferraris had to settle in rows 4 and 5.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Mark Webber suffered clutch problems right from the start and fell from third to sixth after one lap. On the other hand, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso both enjoyed a great getaway, running in fourth and fifth places respectively. Sebastian Vettel had a great run up Eau Rouge and overtook pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton down Kemmel Straight on the first lap and quickly took a commanding lead over the Mercedes duo. Alonso and Webber both passed Button and the Spaniard continued to fight his way up the field, overtaking Nico Rosberg for third place. Kimi Räikkönen was also working his way up the field, but excessive brake dust was coming out of the Finn's left front wheel at an early stage in the race.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Race
On the eighth lap, Sergio Pérez was handed a drive through penalty for forcing Romain Grosjean off the track. As a result, Grosjean had to straightline Les Combes and fell from eight to tenth as Felipe Massa took advantage. Räikkönen's brakes ultimately failed as the Finn went off massively at the Chicane, nearly collecting Massa in the process. The Lotus driver retired the car, which meant that his record run of consecutive points finishes ended at 27. It was later discovered that a loose visor tear-off got stuck inside the left front brake duct, causing the disc to overheat. After the first round of pit stops, Hamilton successfully retained second place from Alonso, but the latter quickly found his way through.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Further down the order, a battle involving Esteban Gutiérrez, Pastor Maldonado and the Force India duo was raging. As the four cars were approaching the final chicane, the young Mexican successfully made his move on both Adrian Sutil and Maldonado. The German tried to follow, but clipped the Williams driver's front wing. Maldonado dove for the pits only to collect the second Force India of Paul di Resta. As a result, the Venezuelan had to pit for a new front wing and received a ten seconds stop-and-go penalty while di Resta retired his car on the spot.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Vettel won the race, ahead of Alonso and Hamilton. Nico Rosberg successfully fought off Webber for fourth, finishing less than three seconds behind his teammate. Button took sixth for McLaren, while the race-long scrap between Massa and Grosjean ended with the Brazilian in front for seventh. Sutil and Daniel Ricciardo took ninth and tenth respectively.


2013 Belgian Grand Prix, Greenpeace protest
Greenpeace used the Belgian Grand Prix as a main point of protests against Shell, a principal sponsor of the race. Greenpeace activists went to the track and put up a number of banners protesting against Shell drilling in the Arctic. These included two remote controlled banners which scrolled up in front of the podium celebrations, which were quickly disposed of by security, and a large banner on the main grandstand. The official world feed broadcast did not show any banner in detail.


2013 Belgian Super Cup
The 2013 Belgian Super Cup was a football match that was played on 21 July 2013, between 2012–13 Belgian Pro League winners Anderlecht and 2012–13 Belgian Cup winners Genk.


2013 Belgium Tour
The 2013 Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour  is the second edition of the Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour, previous called Lotto-Decca Tour, a women's cycle stage race in Belgium. The tour will be held from 23 to 26 August 2013. The tour has an UCI rating of 2.2.


2013 Belgorod shooting
The 2013 Belgorod shooting was a mass murder that occurred on April 22, 2013, in Belgorod, Russia, where six people were killed. 31-year-old Sergey Pomazun shot three people at a gun store and three people on the street outside with a semi-automatic rifle in downtown Belgorod before fleeing to Kursk Oblast, where he was apprehended the next day after an extensive manhunt. Pomazun, an army veteran with a history of petty crime and unstable behavior, confessed to the killings, and in his widely covered trial claimed to have murdered many more innocent people during the Second Chechen War in classified missions as an agent of the GRU.


2013 Belgorod shooting
On August 23, 2013, Pomazun was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Perpetrator
Sergey Aleksandrovich Pomazun (Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Помазу́н) was born on June 3, 1981, in Kupino, a village in Shebekinsky District, Belgorod Oblast, Soviet Union. His father, Alexander Pomazun, was a long-time employee at a fertilizer factory until leaving in the 1990s due to a serious salary delay, and ran a private hunting farm in the Shebekinsky district. His mother, Lyudmila Pomazuna, worked as an accountant in the local department of education. Pomazun attended Belgorod secondary school No. 42, where he was recorded as having poor grades at academic subjects but strong grades at practical subjects.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Perpetrator
In 1996, he entered the vocational school No. 33 training to be an auto mechanic. In 1999, Pomazun was conscripted into the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and approved for service by the military medical board, who placed him into Category "A" – those deemed fully mentally and physically fit without restrictions to their service. Pomazun was designated to an electronic warfare battalion in Belgorod Oblast, where he was appointed an electrician at the battalion's headquarters. According to colleagues, Pomazun was considered strange and people rarely noticed him.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Perpetrator
In 2002, Pomazun and an accomplice were found guilty of stealing two VAZ-2107 cars from private garages and scrapping them for private gain. He was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay 2000 rubles in compensation. In 2003, Pomazun was found guilty of stealing a VAZ-21213 car from a Belgorod hospital parking lot and a VAZ-2106 car from a private garage, scrapping them for profit, and during his arrest striking the arresting police officer in the ear.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Perpetrator
Pomazun received a 5-year and 1-month sentence at a low-security penal colony, but required only serving during weekdays and was allowed weekend furloughs at home. In September 2007, he was denied parole. In 2008, Pomazun was found guilty of stealing two cars, a Mazda 6 and a Lada 111, during his weekend breaks. On June 17, 2008, a court sentenced him to an additional 5-years and 4-months in a high-security penal colony, but an appeal on July 23, 2008, led to the sentence reduced to 4-years 10-months.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Perpetrator
Pomazun was sent to a penal colony in Belgorod before being transferred to one in Valuyki, where he had a record of bad behavior and received 29 individual penalties. According to his father, Pomazun had intentionally violated prison rules to be placed into the isolation ward to get away from the other inmates.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Perpetrator
On December 20, 2012, Pomazun was released from prison, moving in with his parents and living in a largely asocial life playing video games. Alexander Pomazun stated: "He began to notice that when deciding tickets, he began to talk. He repeated the same word five or six times. On many occasions he read aloud the same ticket, and then he was psychologically and swore with obscene language. He switched on and off the switch in the kitchen about 40 times in a row, talked to himself with a whisper, began to wander aimlessly around the room.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Perpetrator
He took out all our family photo albums, as well as his army photos, and burned them. When asked why he did this, he replied that they interfere, they are from a past life." Eventually, Pomazun decided to upgrade the vehicle category of his drivers license with the intention of becoming a taxicab driver and passed the theory test, but in April 2013 he failed the practical test.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Perpetrator
According to Alexander Pomazun, he had begun to behave aggressively returning from the test, and upon arriving home shouted about Chechnya and the GRU then attacked his father with a knife which he had previously purchased. Alexander fended off Pomazun, receiving only minor wounds and the next day handed him in to the local police station. Pomazun was not charged and was given advice by a police officer before being released, after which he failed the taxi practical test two more times.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Perpetrator
Upon failing his third test, Pomazun threatened to kill the instructor and their children, and began shouting about Chechnya and the GRU. Lyudmila Pomazuna appealed to the Belgorod Oblast branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs about her son's behavior, but her application was reject. She instead contacted a psychological clinic, but was told they had no right to compulsory treatment of patients (Pomazun rejected treatment) and advised her to contact the police again. On April 19, 2013, Lyudmila Pomazuna appealed to the Belgorod Oblast state police but received no response.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Perpetrator
Around this time, Pomazun had conflict with a security guard that had insulted him and thrown him out of a department store in Belgorod. Pomazun decided to take revenge by planning to kill the guard, and even prepared for a possible shootout with guards of the store's private security.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Shooting
On the morning of April 22, 2013, after Pomazun's parents had left for work, he broke into his father's safe which contained numerous guns, including a Saiga semi-automatic rifle, IZH-27E and IZH-58 hunting rifles, and 144 rounds. Pomazun stole the Saiga and his father's BMW X5, recently bought earlier by the family on credit. He drove to Belgorod city center, parked the car and wrapping the gun in a cloth. At about 14:16 (UTC+3) Pomazun went to the Okhota hunting store located near the intersection of Popova Street and Narodny Boulevard, where he demanded they sell him ammunition.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Shooting
After receiving a refusal, he shot two sales assistants and a customer, then broke into a display cabinet and stole two carbines, as well as more than 250 rounds of different calibers. Pomazun then exited the store and in broad daylight shot three random people that were walking by, with two of them, a man and a 14-year-old schoolgirl, dying at the scene. The third, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, was wounded and died in a hospital an hour later. The four other victims were all males aged between 28 and 49.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Shooting
Pomazun escaped from the scene in the BMW X5, which was later abandoned, and quickly was identified along with his three previous convictions. He drove to the edge of forest on the outskirts of Belgorod and abandoned the car, then walked several kilometers into the woods where he changed his clothes and buried the gun he had used in the shooting. A combined force of around 2,000 policemen started an extensive manhunt searching for Pomazun, with Belgorod authorities offering a reward of 3 million rubles for his capture. All available policemen from Belgorod Oblast, the neighboring regions of Kursk Oblast and Voronezh Oblast, as well as an OMON detachment from Moscow, joined the search.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Shooting
On April 23, the night after the shooting, Pomazun was arrested near a railway station in Kursk Oblast where he was attempting to flee on a freight train. Four Kursk Oblast police officers were wounded when Pomazun attacked them with a knife, and claimed he had been shooting "into hell".


2013 Belgorod shooting, Aftermath
In response to the shooting, April 23 and 24 were declared days of mourning in Belgorod Oblast, and the authorities promised to give out a million rubles to each of the victims' families.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Aftermath, Trial
Pomazun underwent extensive psychiatric analysis, where he was found fit to stand trial. His trial began with preliminary hearings on June 22, 2013, with the prosecutor demanding life in prison. Pomazun confessed to the shooting, but expressed no remorse for the shooting spree as he said it was an accidental occurrence in the course of "a special operation" that went wrong.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Aftermath, Trial
Pomazun testified that he plotted to kill the security guard who had insulted him, and that he only intended to steal more weapons and ammunition from the gun store to be better prepared for a possible firefight with the intervening police following the planned murder. He claimed that the initial shooting was sparked by his spotting what he thought was a plain-clothed policeman reaching for a concealed weapon, and reacted by shooting people to clear a path to his car.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Aftermath, Trial
Pomazun claimed to the court that, during his service in the Russian armed forces, he had developed a tolerance to killing civilians after being involved in war crimes while fighting in the Second Chechen War between 1999 and 2001, first as a conscript with the regular Russian Army and then as a sharpshooter in a unit of the secretive Spetsnaz GRU. Pomazun claimed that his battalion participated in a series of special operations in Chechnya in order to intimidate the population, where they killed nearly a thousand innocent people "all the way from Mozdok to Khasavyurt".


2013 Belgorod shooting, Aftermath, Trial
He claimed Chechen civilians were crushed under tanks and that women and children were being beheaded, something that he says has since plagued him in his nightmares. But according to court documents, Pomazun never saw combat in the military and has never been to the North Caucasus, to which Pomazun replied that his service and missions were classified and refused to provide any more details.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Aftermath, Trial
Pomazun's lawyer, Viktor Yeremeyev, asked the court for only a 25-year prison sentence due to his poor mental state, and for him to be incarcerated in the Black Dolphin Prison. On August 23, the court under judge Nikolai Kudinov found Pomazun guilty of murdering six people, illegal weapons possession, taking weapons by force and assaulting a police officer. Pomazun was sentenced to life imprisonment in a high-security penal colony, and was ordered to pay 3 million rubles in compensation.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Aftermath, Trial
When the verdict was read out Pomazun reacted aggressively: he started swearing and threatened to kill those present in court, and promised to squeeze out the eyes of the court photographer. Viktor Yeremeyev attempted to appeal the verdict, stating that Pomazun required further psychological testing before being convicted and that the first investigation was superficial with little regard for his poor mental state, but this was declined.


2013 Belgorod shooting, Aftermath, Trial
Since January 28, 2014, Pomazun has been held at the Snowy Owl Prison in Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.


2013 Belk Bowl
The 2013 Belk Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 28, 2013, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season. The twelfth edition of the Belk Bowl, it featured the Cincinnati Bearcats of the American Athletic Conference against the North Carolina Tar Heels of the Atlantic Coast Conference. It began at 3:20 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN. The game was sponsored by the Belk department store company. North Carolina defeated Cincinnati by a score of 39–17.


2013 Belk Bowl
The Bearcats accepted their invitation after earning a 9–3 record for the season, while the Tar Heels accepted their bid after going 6–6 on the season.


2013 Belk Bowl, Teams, Cincinnati Bearcats
The Bearcats continued their winning ways in the American Athletic Conference, finishing at 9–3 overall and 6–2 in the American. After a 31–24 overtime defeat at home against the rival Louisville Cardinals (which saw Louisville retain The Keg of Nails for the foreseeable future), bowl director Will Webb extended an invitation to play in the game.


2013 Belk Bowl, Teams, Cincinnati Bearcats
This will be Cincinnati's second consecutive (and overall) Belk Bowl; the Bearcats had previously won the game in 2012, defeating the Duke Blue Devils by a score of 48–34. It will also end the Belk Bowl's six-year partnership with The American (formerly the Big East, as that tie-in will go to the Southeastern Conference from 2014 through at least 2019.


2013 Belk Bowl, Teams, North Carolina Tar Heels
College football analyst Phil Steele and CBS Sports writer Jerry Palm (as of December 6) projected that the Tar Heels would be the other team invited to play in the game. This was confirmed on December 8.


2013 Belk Bowl, Teams, North Carolina Tar Heels
The Tar Heels are only the sixth team since the regular season expanded to 12 games in 2006 to start the season 1–5 and be invited to a bowl. They reeled off five consecutive wins, including four straight conference wins, to become bowl eligible. This will be North Carolina's fourth appearance in what is now the Belk Bowl. They previously appeared in the game in 2004 (losing to Boston College), 2008 (losing to West Virginia) and 2009 (losing to Pittsburgh).


2013 Belk Bowl, Teams, North Carolina Tar Heels
The 2004 appearance came when the bowl was known as the Continental Tire Bowl; the 2008 and 2009 appearances came when it was the Meineke Car Care Bowl. The Tar Heels have accounted for two of the largest crowds in the bowl's history. The 2008 game attracted a crowd of 73,712, the most in the bowl's history. The 2004 game attracted a crowd of 70,412. Charlotte is only two hours south of Chapel Hill, and the Tar Heels have a large alumni and fan base in the area.


2013 Belk Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
After receiving the opening kickoff, the Tar Heels of North Carolina (UNC) went three-and-out and punted, but on the return, Cincinnati's (CINCY) Anthony McClung fumbled the return, giving UNC the ball back and the CINCY 34. However, UNC was forced to settle for a 40-yard field goal try that Thomas Moore missed. CINCY took possession of the ball at their own 23-yard line, and achieved a first down before a sack that lost 18 yards decimated the drive, and they ultimately punted.


2013 Belk Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
UNC was first to the scoreboard on their subsequent drive, scoring on a 2-yard touchdown run by Romar Morris after 11 plays for 68 yards. CINCY failed to execute on their next drive, punting, and UNC's Ryan Switzer returned the punt for 33 yards (the punt went 34 yards), but the return was called back due to a holding penalty, negating the Tar Heels' good field position, instead putting them back at their own 35-yard line.


2013 Belk Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
On UNC's ensuing drive, they went three-and-out, and during the drive, senior offensive lineman James Hurst went down with an apparent left leg injury, exiting the game; UNC punted. The punt pinned CINCY inside their own 10-yard line, and on their possession, linebacker Kareem Martin and ram back Brandon Ellerbe sacked quarterback Brendon Kay in the end zone for a safety. UNC returner T. J. Logan returned the ensuing free kick 78 yards for a touchdown, making the score 16–0, UNC. CINCY started their subsequent drive at their own 35-yard line after the kickoff went out of bounds. At the end of the first quarter, they were amidst a drive, approaching the red zone.


2013 Belk Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter
CINCY kicker Tony Miliano, who entered the attempt having made just 6 of 15 attempts on the season, made a 34-yard field goal attempt within the first minute of the quarter to make the score 16–3. After that, UNC once again embarked on a long drive that lasted 12 plays for 76 yards and 4:01 and culminated with a Jack Tabb 3-yard touchdown reception from Marquise Williams, making the score 23–3. Later in the quarter, Miliano missed a 46-yard field goal attempt, and subsequently the teams exchanged punts.


2013 Belk Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter
UNC punted on their next drive after failing to convert a third and ten, instead losing five yards to knock them out of field goal range; the punt was downed at the CINCY 6-yard line. CINCY did not attempt to score particularly vigorously, not running any pass plays, and ultimately heading into the half trailing by 20.


2013 Belk Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter
Cincinnati received the opening kickoff of the second half, and exclusively ran the ball on the first several plays of the drive, even to the extent that Shaq Washington replaced Kay at quarterback, the latter of whom lined up at wide receiver; on third down and nine, however, Kay returned to quarterback on a passing play, but was sacked for the fifth time of the game, and the Bearcats were forced to punt, and Switzer tied the NCAA-record with his fifth punt return touchdown of the season, recording an 86-yard touchdown; the extra point was no good.


2013 Belk Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter
CINCY finally scored a touchdown on their subsequent drive, via a 15-yard rush by Ralph Abernathy, making the score 29–10. On the ensuing kickoff, CINCY kicked the ball out of bounds, setting up UNC with solid field position at their own 35-yard line. Early in the drive Eric Ebron, hurdled a defender and hit the ground hard, but quickly re-entered the game, and caught another pass just a few plays later. Later in the drive, Switzer made a catch that converted a fourth down in the red zone; moments later, Morris rushed for a 1-yard touchdown. This time, the extra point was good to culminate a 13-play, 65-yard drive that encapsulated 4:36. CINCY's ensuing drive stalled, and they punted; Switzer made a fair catch. In the waning seconds of the quarter, CINCY entered the red zone.


2013 Belk Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
Utilizing the wildcat formation, Shaq Washington rushed for a touchdown within the first minute of the final quarter of play, pulling the Bearcats within 19. On the ensuing kickoff, CINCY recovered a fumble from T. J. Logan, fueling momentum for the Bearcats, who started at the 6-yard line.


2013 Belk Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
They started in the wildcat, but when faced with third and goal at the eight-yard line, Kay returned at quarterback and completed a pass, but it was short of the end zone; the Bearcats went for it on fourth down, and Kay threw a pass that bounced off the hands of his intended target, and thus, they turned the ball over.


2013 Belk Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
Looking to milk the clock on their ensuing drive, UNC achieved a first down prior to losing six yards on a rush to set up third down and long; a pass interference bailed them out on the third and long play, as though the pass was incomplete, the 15-yard penalty gave them an automatic first down. They succeeded in their endeavor to drain time from the clock, ultimately executing a 14-play drive that gained 74 yards and lasted 9:19, and culminated with a 40-yard field goal to complete the scoring.


2013 Belkin Pro Cycling season
The 2013 season for the Belkin Pro Cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2013 Belkin Pro Cycling season
Having lost the sponsorship of Rabobank after seventeen years in the sport, the team were able to compete during the 2013 season due to Rabobank funding. As a result, the team ran as the Blanco Pro Cycling team for the first half of the season. Prior to the Tour de France, it was announced that Belkin, an American manufacturer of consumer electronics, acquired title sponsorship of the team in a 2 1⁄2-year deal.


2013 Belmont Stakes
The 2013 Belmont Stakes was the 145th running of the Belmont Stakes, the third jewel in the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. The race was held on June 8, 2013. For the third consecutive year, the race was run without the Triple Crown being at stake as 2013 Kentucky Derby winner Orb was defeated in the 2013 Preakness Stakes by Oxbow.


2013 Belmont Stakes
The race was won by Palace Malice in 2:30.70. Oxbow finished second, Orb third, Incognito fourth, Revolutionary fifth and the filly Unlimited Budget was sixth.


2013 Belmont Stakes, Field
Both the Kentucky Derby winner Orb and the Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow entered the race. This was the 21st time that the winner of the Kentucky Derby and the winner of the Preakness Stakes competed in the race. A total of fourteen horses entered the race, tying for the second-largest field for the third time in the race's history.


2013 Belmont Stakes, Field
Orb was the morning line favorite. Trainer Todd Pletcher entered a record 5 horses in the race, including the filly Unlimited Budget who was attempting to become the second filly to win the race in the modern era after Pletcher's 2007 winner Rags to Riches. Ridden by Rosie Napravnik, who in doing so, became the first woman jockey to ride all three Triple Crown races in a single year, the filly-and-female-jockey story garnered considerable press.


2013 Belmont Stakes, Race
Oxbow held the lead late into the race until Palace Malice passed him with a quarter-mile to go. Palace Malice eventually won by 3 1⁄4 lengths. Orb made a run from back in the pack and finished third.


2013 Bendigo Women's International (1)
The 2013 Bendigo Women's International (1) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Bendigo, Australia, on 21–27 October 2013.


2013 Bendigo Women's International (1), WTA entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Bendigo Women's International (1) – Doubles
Ashleigh Barty and Sally Peers were the defending champions, having won the event in 2012, but Barty decided not to participate this year. Peers partnered up with Stephanie Bengson, but lost in the first round.


2013 Bendigo Women's International (1) – Doubles
Erika and Yurika Sema won the tournament, defeating Monique Adamczak and Olivia Rogowska in the final, 3–6, 6–2, [11–9].


2013 Bendigo Women's International (1) – Singles
Arina Rodionova was the defending champion, having won the event in 2012, but lost in the semifinals to Noppawan Lertcheewakarn.


2013 Bendigo Women's International (1) – Singles
Casey Dellacqua won the tournament, defeating Lertcheewakarn in the final, 6–4, 6–4.


2013 Bendigo Women's International (2)
The 2013 Bendigo Women's International (2) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament (second of the year) which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Bendigo, Australia, on 28 October–3 November 2013. Rodionova, Barty and Peers were listed as the defending champions as they were the champions of the event last year, as there were two events in 2013 they are listed as defending champions for both editions.


2013 Bendigo Women's International (2), WTA entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Bendigo Women's International (2) – Doubles
This is the doubles draw for the second Bendigo Women's International of 2013.


2013 Bendigo Women's International (2) – Doubles
Monique Adamczak and Olivia Rogowska won the tournament, defeating Stephanie Bengson and Sally Peers in the all-Australian final, 6–3, 2–6, [11–9].


2013 Bendigo Women's International (2) – Singles
This is the singles draw for the second Bendigo Women's International of 2013.


2013 Bendigo Women's International (2) – Singles
Casey Dellacqua won the tournament, defeating Tammi Patterson in the final, 6–3, 6–1. Dellacqua also won the first edition of the Bendigo Women's International one week previously.


2013 Bengali blog blackout
On 4 April 2013 (0700 GMT) all Bengali blogs were blacked out for an indefinite time to protest the arrest of four bloggers in Bangladesh (Moshiur Rahman Biplob, Rasel Parvez, Subrata Adhikari Shuvo and Asif Mohiuddin). The blackout was to back a demand for the unconditional release of the arrested bloggers. A fundamentalist group named Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh started a campaign to hang freethinking bloggers, and demanding tough blasphemy laws. In response, the government started monitoring Bengali blog sites and sending letters to their authorities to terminate the alleged "anti-religious" blogs and provide information about the alleged "anti-religious" bloggers.


2013 Bengali blog blackout
Individual bloggers showed their solidarity with this blackout by changing their profile photos on Facebook and by tweeting with the #MuzzleMeNot hashtag. Different international organizations expressed deep concern about taking free-thinking bloggers into custody. After 92 hours of blackout, blogs returned online by publishing a press release on their central Facebook page.


2013 Bengali blog blackout, Background
From the beginning of the Shahbag protest, bloggers came out on the streets to demand capital punishment of Abdul Quader Molla, a war criminal of the Bangladesh liberation war and a leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. During the protests, a controversial author, pro-Shahbag blogger and online activist Sunnyur Rahman, popularly known as 'Nastik Nobi' (Atheist Prophet) in the blog community, was stabbed on 7 March 2013. Another pro-Shahbag blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider who was critical of Jamaat-e-Islami, was killed by a few Jamaat activists.


2013 Bengali blog blackout, Background
Afterwards, a Jamaat backed Islamic fundamentalist organisation started a violent protest demanding the death penalty for all allegedly "anti-Islamic" bloggers, and they termed all participants of the Shahbag movement as atheist. The spokesperson of the Shahbag movement Imran H. Sharkar said, Hifazat-e-Islam is desperate to thwart the war crimes trial and the process of banning Jamaat-e-Islami.


2013 Bengali blog blackout, Background
Afterwards, the government of Bangladesh started monitoring the blogosphere and sent letters to the Bengali blog authorities to terminate the alleged "anti-religious" blogs and to provide information about the alleged "anti-religious" bloggers.


2013 Bengali blog blackout, Background
On the night of 1 April 2013, three bloggers were arrested by the detective branch (DB) police. Blogger Rasel Pervez, a prominent physicist and blogger and Mashiur Rahman Biplob were arrested on 1 April 2013 from their house. Subrata Adhikari Shuvo, who is a masters student of the Bengali department at the University of Dhaka, was also arrested on the same day from his university dormitory. Another blogger Asif Mohiuddin was called to the police station on 3 April 2013, and when he went there, he was arrested. Earlier, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission forced the Bengali blog somewhereinblog.net to remove all writings of Asif Mohiuddin. The move was criticized by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Center for Inquiry, Reporters Without Borders, Committee to Protect Journalists, and several other bodies.


2013 Benghazi conflict
The 2013 Benghazi conflict is a part of the aftermath of the Libyan civil war, that began after clashes erupted between protesters and militants from the Libya Shield brigade on 8 June 2013.


2013 Benghazi conflict, Background
Since the Libyan Civil War that toppled the Muammar Gaddafi, there has been factional fighting occurring around Libya, in particular in Benghazi (where the first protests began in 2011). The city had been the scene of a number of attacks prior to these events, including some related to the ongoing factional fighting, as well as an attack against the U.S. consulate.


2013 Benghazi conflict, Timeline, June
On 8 June, at least 31 people were killed and 100 wounded in clashes in Benghazi between protesters and a militia operating with Defence Ministry approval. Most of the dead were civilians, with only 5 soldiers and one militia member reported killed. and one was a militiaman.


2013 Benghazi conflict, Timeline, June
On 15 June, In the early hours of 15 June, hundreds of plain-clothed gunmen attacked several security installations across the city, at one point even forcing members of the First Infantry Brigade to abandon parts of their base as they stormed the main gate and torched parts of the building. At least six Libyan soldiers were killed during the assault – four by sniper fire and two from stabbing wounds. All of the dead were members of an elite Libyan Army unit called Saaqa. Eleven people were injured during the attacks, including several assailants.


2013 Benghazi conflict, Timeline, June
Clashes were reported near the road leading to the airport, forcing its closure. Government reinforcements were reportedly sent from the capital Tripoli. The head of Benghazi's Counter Crime Agency has suggested that Qaddafi elements were in fact behind the attacks. Colonel Sulaiman Abu-Wishah told Benghazi Radio that two members of a Qaddaf Al-Dam sabotage group have been arrested. He claimed that the group was professional, its task to cause dissension and unrest, and that it was believed to be behind a number of other attacks in Benghazi. The members of the group were believed to be supporters of the former regime.


2013 Benghazi conflict, Timeline, June
On 19 June, a huge explosion totally flattened the police station in the Al-Hadayeq (the gardens) district of Benghazi early this morning, but miraculously there are no casualties being reported. The sound of the explosion at about 2.30 am was so loud that it was reportedly heard across most of the districts of Benghazi. It is thought that there were no casualties within the police station because the station had been closed down after an earlier attack in May.


2013 Benghazi conflict, Timeline, June
Samir Al-Lamamy, a witness and resident of the Al-Hadayeq district told Libya Herald that "the explosion led to the complete destruction of the police station leveling it to the ground".Al-Lamamy also speculated that "there might have been more than one bomb planted in the police station because the explosion was so strong that it totally destroyed it".


2013 Benghazi conflict, Timeline, July
On 2 July, A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint that was being manned by special military forces, injuring four soldiers and at least three civilians.


2013 Benghazi conflict, Timeline, July
On 26 July, Muslim Brotherhood critic Abdelsalam al-Mosmary was fatally shot after leaving a mosque following Friday prayers during Ramadan. In the aftermath protesters attacked Muslim Brotherhood property in both Benghazi and the capital Tripoli. Two days later, buildings used by the judiciary were bombed and was then followed by clashes between an unnamed militia and the military special forces. On 29 July, an unidentified militia also attacked the Tripoli headquarters of the al-Watan party, led by Abdelhakim Belhadj.


2013 Benghazi conflict, Timeline, July
The head of the party's political office, Jamal Ashour, said: "They smashed windows, shot at the door locks to open them and threw Molotov cocktails inside. The damage is serious. No one was injured." The same day, in Benghazi a car bomb exploded and injuring a navy colonel in what was termed an "attempted assassination;" Prime Minister Ali Zeidan also said that he would reshuffle his cabinet soon. "Today we chose a figure for the defence portfolio and tomorrow [Tuesday] or the day after we are going to present a list of ministers to the General [National] Congress."


2013 Benghazi conflict, Aftermath
According to The Economist, following the June fighting "Libya's leaders are celebrating what they herald as the beginning of the end of militia rule and the restoration of a functioning state", while Libya's liberals "cheer the demise of what they have seen as the armed wing of their Islamist foes. ".


2013 Beni special gubernatorial election
The 2013 Beni special gubernatorial election was held on 20 January 2013. The elections were held to replace the interim governor of Beni Department with an elected executive who will serve until 2015. Numerous observers described the election as an important test of political strength in eastern Bolivia: a MAS victory would signal the retreat of the Media Luna right-wing alliance to Santa Cruz department alone; while a Beni First victory would dash MAS' political ambitions in the department.


2013 Beni special gubernatorial election
Prior to the election, Beni had an interim governor, Haysen Ribera Leigue, who was selected by the Departmental Legislative Assembly on 16 December 2011. Governor Ernesto Suárez Sattori, who was elected on 4 April 2010, was suspended following his indictment for irregular expenditures related to a power plant in San Borja, Beni, in compliance with a Bolivian legal mandate that indicted officials may not continue to serve.


2013 Beni special gubernatorial election
Early unofficial results, tabulated by the exit poll firm IPSOS, gave Carmelo Lens of Beni First a first-round victory with 52.6%, ahead of Jessica Jordan (44.1%), Pedro Nuni (2.4%) and Ademirzon Algarañaz (0.9%). While Lens and his supporters celebrated victory, Jordan pledged to await official results. On January 22, Evo Morales and the national leadership of the MAS–IPSP conceded defeat. Since Lens won more that a 50% majority, there will not be a two-candidate runoff on March 21. Lens was scheduled to be sworn in on March 1.


2013 Beni special gubernatorial election
Final results were released on February 3, 2013 by the Plurinational Electoral Organ (nearly complete results with 997 of the 1000 electoral tables reporting had been released earlier). They showed that Carmelo Lens won 71,161 votes, a 52.27% majority and well ahead of Jessica Jordan's 60,382 votes (44,35%).


2013 Beni special gubernatorial election, Political parties and candidates
Four political parties chose nominees by the deadline. They are as follows:


2013 Berlin Marathon
The 2013 Berlin Marathon was the 40th edition of the Berlin Marathon, held in Berlin, Germany. It took place on Sunday, 29 September. The race was sponsored by BMW, being officially titled the BMW Berlin Marathon.


2013 Berlin Marathon
The men's race was won by Wilson Kipsang of Kenya in a world record time of 2:03:23.


2013 Berlin Marathon
The women's race was won by Florence Kiplagat of Kenya in a time of 2:21:13.


2013 Berlin Marathon
The 20th-place finisher in the men's race, Miguel Ángel Gamonal, tested positive for Clenbuterol and was disqualified and banned for two years.


2013 Berlin Marathon
Although Kipsang's world record was obviously the major historical event of the race, it later became notable for being Eliud Kipchoge's only loss at the marathon distance in an otherwise spotless competitive record spanning 2013 to 2019. His next loss would not occur until the 2020 London Marathon.


2013 Berlin energy referendum
A referendum on the recommunalization of the energy supply in Berlin was held on 3 November 2013. Prompted by the Neue Energie für Berlin (New Energy for Berlin) citizens' initiative in June 2013, it was approved by 83% of those who voted. However, the referendum failed due to insufficient voter turnout. 24.2% of Berlin voters voted in favor, but the quorum required 25% or more to do so.


2013 Berlin energy referendum, Draft legislation
The New Energy for Berlin draft law aimed for the recommunalization of Berlin's energy supply that was privatized in 1997, when the city of Berlin sold its municipal infrastructure and services company Bewag to the Swedish power company Vattenfall. It also demanded economically democratic control of the supply and a fast transition to 100% renewable energy.


2013 Berlin energy referendum, Initiators
The referendum on New Energy for Berlin was initiated by the Berlin Energy Table (German: Berliner Energietisch), a non-partisan alliance of about 55 organizations, initiatives, and individual activists aiming for the recommunalization of the municipal energy supply. The alliance was founded in 2011 as an open platform for all those lobbying for a socially just, ecologically sustainable, and economically democratic energy, gas, and heating supply in Berlin.


2013 Berlin energy referendum, Initiators
Members of the alliance include the Berlin sections of attac, BUND, People's Solidarity, the Education and Science Workers' Union (GEW) as well as community organizations for affordable housing and the left-wing initiative FelS. While being non-partisan, the alliance is supported by the federal sections of major parties such as the SPD, Alliance '90/The Greens, and Die Linke.


2013 Berlin energy referendum, Course of events
Between 11 February and 10 June 2013, the initiators collected 227,748 valid signatures of Berlin citizens, around 50,000 more than necessary to qualify for a referendum (Volksbegehren).


2013 Berlin helicopter crash
On 21 March 2013, two helicopters of the German Federal Police collided while landing in front of Berlin Olympic Stadium, Germany, in whiteout conditions. One crew member was killed and nine other people, both on board the helicopters and on the ground, were injured.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Background
During a large police exercise against football hooliganism on 21 March 2013 at the Olympic Stadium of Berlin, three helicopters of the federal German police force were scheduled to land on the Maifeld sports field in front of the stadium. Their task was the delivery of reinforcements for police at the nearby railway station. The flight comprised two Eurocopter AS332 Super Pumas and one Eurocopter EC 155.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Background, Meteorological conditions
Visibility of 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) had been reported at 10:20 a.m. from Tegel Airport, three nautical miles from the stadium. Cloud coverage was broken with winds of 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) from 310 degrees. Air temperature was −1 °C (30 °F), air pressure was 1015 hPa. Investigators measured a layer of snow of 17 centimetres (6.7 in) outside the crash site. During the morning, the air temperature had further decreased, so that the old snow cover was frozen with fresh snow lying on top. The total snow thickness at the crash site was recorded as 15 centimetres (5.9 in).


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Accident
The final investigation report describes the event as follows: The first aircraft, an EC 155, landed successfully around 10:28 CET but raised large amounts of snow from the ground. This helicopter carried the pilot, an engineer, seven police officers, and one journalist. It was followed by the Super Puma, which approached the landing zone at a steep angle and hovered back and forth above the ground for about 30 seconds, raising ever more snow that fully engulfed the first helicopter.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Accident
During this manoeuvre, the third helicopter, also a Super Puma, approached the landing zone, carrying the pilot, an engineer, and 13 officers. This third aircraft also raised a large cloud of snow from the ground while landing, causing the pilot to lose sight of the marshalling officer on the ground. The third helicopter then touched the ground which caused the aircraft to roll over. Thereby its main rotor and tail section collided with the EC155's main rotor. The pilot of the EC155 was killed by a piece of rotor blade. Apart from a landing report made by helicopter number one and a brief report on changing positions during the landing approach of aircraft number two and three, no radio communication took place between the three aircraft during the entire landing phase.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Accident
Helicopter No. 1 (EC 155) was equipped with a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder. The crashed Super Puma was equipped with a cockpit voice recorder but did not carry a flight data recorder since that was not a legal requirement when the type was first certified in 1989. Voice recorder data did not indicate any warnings about potential technical problems during the landing approach.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Reactions
After the disaster, the police exercise was criticised by members of the state parliament of Berlin. Delegates of Alliance '90/The Greens and The Left questioned the use of helicopters during the bad weather conditions on the day of the exercise, and called the training scenario "unrealistic" and "disproportionate". Members of the Federal Police and politicians of the SPD and CDU stated that such exercises were useful, since real missions still have to be carried out in bad weather. The Greens and The Left also announced that they would debate the topic in the interior committee of the state parliament.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Reactions
Hans-Peter Friedrich, Federal Minister of the Interior, and Berlin senator of the interior Frank Henkel visited the site of the crash on 21 March and offered their condolences to the victims and their families. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her commiserations via her press officer Steffen Seibert.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Reactions
Wolfgang Bosbach, head of the interior commission of the parliament of Germany, announced that the helicopter crash would be added to the list of subjects in a planned debate about the future structure of the federal police forces.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Investigation
The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation and federal attorneys investigated the accident, and a special homicide commission was routinely established at the Berlin State Office of Criminal Investigation. In the night of 22 March, the wrecked aircraft were hauled to a police facility in Ruhleben. A post-mortem examination of the dead pilot concluded that he had obviously been killed by extraneous causes resulting from the crash. Following these findings, the special homicide commission was dissolved.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Investigation
A first report by the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation was published in May 2013. It listed the known facts of the accident without identifying a cause. The cause of the accident was still unclear as of September 2013.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Investigation, Final report and criticism
The final investigation report was published in September 2014. The investigators stated that all pilots had ample flying experience including landings in snow, dust and sand. The pilot of helicopter No. 2 had also been flying search-and-rescue missions in mountainous areas so he was familiar with landing on unprepared snowy ground.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Investigation, Final report and criticism
According to the investigation, a number of circumstances led to the fatal crash: the federal police aviation did not have any distinctive procedure for landings on snowy ground, the distances between the three individual aircraft during the landing phase had been too small, and communication between the personnel involved in the landing operation had been too scarce. The final investigation report also criticised that while the German federal police helicopter squadron was the nation's biggest non-military helicopter operator, it was not bound to the legal framework of similar civilian aviation companies. Notably European Union directive No. 216/2008 was criticised for exempting police aviation from such legal control. Also safety recommendations for police helicopter aviation issued by the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation to the federal ministry of transport in 2006 had not been legally implemented.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Investigation, Final report and criticism
The president of the German federal police rejected the report and claimed that own investigations had shown different results. The distance between the aircraft had been sufficient, and the communication had been reduced to a minimum according to the planned mission. Police pilots unofficially criticised the chief investigator who is a military pilot and had allegedly used inapplicable standards for the investigation. A motion to disqualify the investigator was however rejected.


2013 Berlin helicopter crash, Aftermath
Following the crash, the federal police introduced special training units and new rules for helicopter landings in snow. In February 2017, it was reported that NATO was prompted by the 2013 Olympiastadion crash to initiate a multinational trials campaign for new technologies in low-visibility helicopter flights.


2013 Best of Nollywood Awards
The 5th Best of Nollywood Awards was held at Dome, Asaba, Delta State on December 5, 2013. Several notable  personalities like Juliet Ibrahim, Omoni Oboli and Richard Mofe Damijo were in attendance. The Dark Comedy film Confusion Na Wa won the category Movie of the Year.


2013 Bet Hip Hop Awards
The 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards was held on October 15, 2013 at Atlanta Civic Center in the ATL. Snoop Dogg was the event's host for the first time. Kendrick Lamar leads the nominations with 14. Drake had the second most at 13, while J. Cole picked up 10 nods. Kendrick Lamar won the most awards with 5 wins.


2013 Bet Hip Hop Awards
There was some controversy as Toronto battle rapper Charron won Freestyle Friday's March Mayhem Tournament, which guaranteed him a spot in the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher as one of the prizes for his victory. However, once it came time to film the cyphers, Charron was excluded. He responded with the "BET Cypher Verse" where he disses BET, Murda Mook, Gucci Mane, Soulja Boy, Lil Twist, Rick Ross, Kendrick Lamar and Chief Keef, among others.


2013 Bet Hip Hop Awards, Nominations, Track of the Year
Only the producer of the track nominated in this category.


2013 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel
The 2013 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 69th edition of the Austrian Open Kitzbühel, as part of the World Tour 250 series of the 2013 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Tennis stadium Kitzbühel in Kitzbuehel Austria, from July 28 through August 3.


2013 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2013 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel – Doubles
František Čermák and Julian Knowle were the defending champions but decided not to participate together. Knowle teamed up with Leonardo Mayer, but lost in the first round to Daniel Brands and Michal Mertiňák. Čermák played alongside Lukáš Dlouhý, but lost in the final to Martin Emmrich and Christopher Kas, 4–6, 3–6.


2013 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel – Singles
Robin Haase was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Marcel Granollers. Granollers went on to win the title, defeating Juan Mónaco in the final, 0-6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4.


2013 Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2013 Bethune–Cookman Wildcats football team
The 2013 Bethune–Cookman Wildcats football team represented Bethune-Cookman University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Brian Jenkins and played their home games at Municipal Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). Bethune-Cookman finished the season 10–3, 7–1 in MEAC play to win a share of the conference championship with South Carolina State. Due to their win over South Carolina State, they received the conference's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they lost in the first round to Coastal Carolina.


2013 Bhutan National League
The 2013 Bhutan National League started on 14 September 2013 and ended on 23 November 2013 and was the second time that a true national league competition was held in Bhutan, following from the inaugural season the previous year. Again the A-Division served as a qualifying round for teams based in Thimpu, who were then joined by regional teams for the national stage. Yeedzin won the A-Division, but were beaten into second place in the National League by Ugyen Academy.


2013 Bhutan National League, A-Division
The 2013 tournament started on 19 May 2013 and ended on 15 June 2013. Yeedzin FC qualified along with Thimphu City (known in previous seasons as Zimdra) and Dzongree. Dzongree were meant to play-off against Druk Pol (who were exempted from the A-Division competition as, being the national police force team, they were on duty during the Bhutan elections) for the final berth in the National League, but the playoff did not take place and both teams entered the National League.


2013 Bhutan National League, A-Division
Druk United and Druk Star entered a round robin relegation play-of competition with the top two teams in the B-Division, Motithang FC and BMW FC. The full results are not known but it appears that either the two A-Division teams were successful or the round robin was not completed as both teams participated in the A-Division the following season.


2013 Bhutan National League, National League, Teams
A total of six teams competed in the league: three teams representing Thimphu, and three teams representing other districts.


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election
National Assembly elections were held in Bhutan on 31 May and 13 July 2013. The result was a victory for the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP), which won 32 of the 47 seats. The elections were the second general elections to occur in Bhutan since former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck ushered in democratic reforms.


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election, Background
By law, the National Assembly is required to be reconstituted within 90 days of its previous term expiring. As the term of the Assembly elected in 2008 expired on 20 April 2013, this meant that the new Assembly would need to have been elected by 20 July.


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election, Electoral system
The election was held in two rounds. In the first round every party contested all 20 Dzongkhags (the administrative and judicial districts of Bhutan). The parties with the two highest vote tallies progressed to the second round, in which they put forward candidates in each of the 47 National Assembly constituencies. In the first round of the elections, the Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party had received roughly 40% of votes and the People's Democratic Party receiving approximately 30%, with two other parties sharing the other 30% of the votes.


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election, Electoral system
A total of 381,790 voters were registered for the election. The election date for the first round was made a public holiday, with all businesses required to close on the day. Over 4,000 electronic voting machines were provided by India for the election.


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election, Campaign
Four parties contested the election; the ruling Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party (DPT), the main opposition People's Democratic Party, and two new parties, Druk Nymrub Tshogpa and Druck Chirwang Tshogpa. A fifth party, the Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party, attempted to participate in the election, but failed to field a university-educated candidate in Gasa District in the northern part of the country. Consequently, the Bhutanese Elections Commission disqualified the party, even though each of the four other parties had made official requests to the commission to allow the Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party to participate.


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election, Campaign
The head of the party, Sonam Tobgay, stated that "Four parties appealing for the fifth party, who couldn’t qualify, is something unprecedented universally and internationally, something special and noble." The DPT campaigned for the support of rural communities having improved access to roads, mobile phone networks and electricity during its tenure.


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election, Campaign
Ties with India had recently come under strain after it cut subsidised cooking gas and kerosene to Bhutan, viewed as a punishment for developing ties with China. This tripled the cost of fuel and made relations between the two neighbours a major electoral issue. The consequent rise in fuel prices was coupled with a credit crunch and import restrictions after the country ran short of foreign exchange reserves of the Indian rupee. The People's Democratic Party had campaigned on a platform of stronger relations with India and a decentralisation of powers, devolving control through local government.


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election, Results
The voting process was a challenge due to the mountainous terrain as officials had to trek for seven days to set up some polling stations.


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election, Results
As a result of the election, Tshering Tobgay is expected to be named Prime Minister of the new government, to form once a 10-day "petition period" for electoral complaints to be heard has finished. Three women were elected, with Dorji Choden of the PDP expected to be Bhutan's first female minister.


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election, Results, Reactions and analysis
Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh sent the PDP a message of congratulations, assuring Bhutan of India's "steadfast and unflinching support."


2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election, Results, Reactions and analysis
The PDP victory was considered an upset by the media.


2013 Bhutanese National Council election
National Council elections were held in Bhutan on 23 April 2013. All candidates ran as independents, as National Council members were prohibited from belonging to a political party.


2013 Bhutanese National Council election, Electoral system
The 20 members of the National Council were elected in single-member constituencies equivalent to the country's twenty Dzongkhags. A further five members were appointed by the Druk Gyalpo.


2013 Bhutanese National Council election, Electoral system
Candidates had to register by 31 March, whilst the campaigning period lasted from 1 to 21 April. A total of 67 candidates registered to run in the election, although the Dagana and Trashigang dzongkhags had only one candidate each. In those dzongkhags voters were given the choice of voting against the only candidate.


2013 Bhutanese National Council election, Electoral system
Election day was a public holiday, and the country's borders were closed for the day.


2013 Bhutanese National Council election, Aftermath
Following the election Druk Gyalpo Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck appointed Dasho Karma Yezer Raydi, Kuenlay Tshering, Karma Damcho Nidup, Tashi Wangmo and Tashi Wangyal to the Council.


2013 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2013 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 22 through May 26 at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The annual tournament determines the conference champion of the Division I Big 12 Conference for college baseball. The winner of the event earns the league's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2013 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament
The tournament has been held since 1997, the inaugural year of the Big 12 Conference. Among current league members, Texas has won the most championships with four. TCU and West Virginia, new members of the league, are eligible for their first tournaments. Only Baylor and Kansas State have never won the event. Iowa State discontinued their program after the 2001 season without having won a title. Last year's champion, Missouri and three time champion Texas A&M departed the conference for the Southeastern Conference after the 2012 season.


2013 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament
Fourth-seeded Oklahoma defeated sixth-seeded Kansas in the championship game to claim their second Big 12 Baseball Conference Tournament title.


2013 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
Due to the 2013 Moore tornado, just outside the Oklahoma City site of the Tournament, the Big 12 announced a delay in the start of the event and a change in format from the planned double-elimination tournament. Instead, the eight teams will be divided into two pools who will play a round-robin format. The winners of each pool will then play a single championship game.


2013 Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2013 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship, was the 2013 edition of the Big 12 Conference's championship tournament. The tournament was held at the American Airlines Center in Dallas from March 5–8, 2013. The quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals were televised on Fox Sports Net. The championship game was held on March 11, 2013.


2013 Big 12 Conference Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2013 Big 12 Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Big 12 Conference held on November 6, 8 and 10, 2014. The seven-match tournament was held at the Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri with a combined attendance of 2,787. The 8-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The West Virginia Mountaineers defeated the Oklahoma State Cowgirls in the championship match to win their first conference tournament since joining the league.


2013 Big 12 Conference football season
The 2013 Big 12 Conference football season will be the 18th season for the Big 12, as part of the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season.


2013 Big 12 Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Big 12 Teams
The Big 12 Conference coaches voted for the All-Big 12 teams after the regular season concluded.


2013 Big 12 Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Big 12 Teams
Coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players.


2013 Big 12 Conference football season, 2014 NFL Draft
N.B: In the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the 2014 Draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.


2013 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship was held at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri from March 13 - March 16, 2013. This tournament marked the debut of TCU and West Virginia in the event. First round games were aired on the Big 12 Network, Quarterfinal games were aired on ESPN2 and the Big 12 Network. Semifinal games were available in the conference footprint on the Big 12 Network and outside league markets on ESPNU. All games were carried on WatchESPN, with most also available via ESPN Full Court. The Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Kansas State Wildcats 70-54 in the Championship game, which was televised by ESPN, to receive the Big 12's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Tournament. All 10 teams qualified for the tournament, with ties broken by using a tiebreaker system.


2013 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeding
The Tournament consisted of a 10 team single-elimination tournament with the top 6 seeds receiving a bye.


2013 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2013 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Bright House Field in Clearwater, Florida from May 22 through May 26. The event, held at the end of the conference regular season, determined the champion of the Big East Conference for the 2013 season. Eight seeded Connecticut won their third tournament championship to claim the conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2013 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament
It was also the last tournament for the original Big East Conference. Following several years of instability, culminating in a split of the conference along football lines, the seven member schools that did not sponsor Division I FBS football purchased the "Big East" name and formed a new Big East in July 2013. The FBS schools that had not moved to other conferences by that time joined with several new members and reorganized as the American Athletic Conference, retaining the charter of the original Big East.


2013 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The tournament used a double-elimination format, with the field divided into two brackets. The winners of each bracket faced off in a single championship game. Seton Hall claimed the second seed over Pittsburgh and St. John's took the sixth seed over Notre Dame by tiebreaker.


2013 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament, Bracket
*Indicates game required 12 innings. † - Indicates game required 10 innings.


2013 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Billy Ferriter was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Ferriter was an outfielder for Connecticut.


2013 Big East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2013 Big East Men's Soccer Tournament was the inaugural men's soccer tournament of the new Big East Conference, formed in July 2013 after the original Big East Conference split into two leagues along football lines. Including the history of the original conference, it was the 18th edition of the Big East tournament.


2013 Big East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
Held from November 15–17 at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania, it determined the Big East Conference champion, and the automatic berth into the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The defending champions, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, left the original Big East at the time of the conference split to join the Atlantic Coast Conference. The tournament was won by the Marquette Golden Eagles who defeated the Providence Friars in the Big East final.


2013 Big East Conference men's soccer season
The 2013 Big East Conference men's soccer season is the inaugural season for the newly formed offshoot of the original Big East Conference. The "new" Big East consists of the seven members of the original Big East that did not sponsor Division I FBS football (the so-called "Catholic 7"), plus invited founding members Butler, Creighton, and Xavier. The FBS schools sold the "Big East" name to the "Catholic 7" and are operating as the American Athletic Conference under the original Big East charter. Including the history of the original Big East, this will be the 18th season of men's soccer under the "Big East" name.


2013 Big East Conference men's soccer season
The defending champions are the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, who moved to the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2013 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, officially known as the 2013 Big East Championship, was the 34th annual Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, deciding the champion of the 2012–13 Big East Conference men's basketball season. For the 31st consecutive season, the tournament was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City, from March 12–16, 2013. The tournament only featured 14 teams due to Connecticut being given a one-year postseason ban due to APR penalties. This would have been the last year with as many as 16 teams participating in the Big East tournament, but Connecticut was ineligible and West Virginia moved to the Big 12 before the beginning of the season. The conference tournament champion received an automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Tournament.


2013 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
Following a period of turnover in the conference membership, the Big East name, its logos, and its tournament history were assumed by schools of the original Big East that do not sponsor FBS football. The reconfigured Big East continues to hold its tournament at Madison Square Garden. The FBS schools formerly in the Big East play under a new name, the American Athletic Conference; its first conference tournament was played in Memphis, Tennessee and that event has since alternated between Hartford, Connecticut and Orlando, Florida.


2013 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All teams except for Connecticut (due to Academic Progress Rate violations) qualified for the tournament; seeds 11-14 played a first round game, while teams five through ten received byes to the second round. The top four seeds received double-byes to the quarterfinals.


2013 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.


2013 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule
All tournament games were nationally televised on an ESPN network:


2013 Big League World Series
The 2013 Big League World Series took place from July 24–31 in Easley, South Carolina, United States. Greenville County, South Carolina defeated Maracaibo, Venezuela in the championship game.


2013 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ran from March 14–16, 2013. The champion of the tournament, Montana, received an automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Tournament.


2013 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
Unlike most Division I conference tournaments in basketball, the Big Sky tournament did not involve all of the conference's teams. With the addition of North Dakota and Southern Utah to the conference for the 2012–13 season, expanding the number of teams from 9 to 11, the tournament expanded from six teams to seven. As in previous years, qualifying was based on overall conference record. The number of teams that fail to qualify also increased by one, going from three to four. All tournament games were played at the site of the regular-season champion. The men's tournament also returned to a Thursday-Friday-Saturday format. The field was re-seeded after the first round so the #1 seed played the lowest remaining seed, while the highest remaining seeds met in the other semifinal.


2013 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket
Sacramento State, Eastern Washington, Portland State & Idaho State failed to qualify. All times listed are Mountain


2013 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2013 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 21–25. The top eight regular season finishers of the conference's twelve teams met in the double-elimination tournament, which was held at Liberty Baseball Stadium on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. In the championship game, fifth-seeded Liberty defeated first-seeded Campbell, 2-1, to win its fourth tournament championship. As a result, Liberty earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2013 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
With the introduction of division play in 2013, the division winners were seeded one and two, and the next six finishers from the regular season, regardless of division, were seeded three through eight based on conference winning percentage only. The teams played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament, with the winners of each bracket facing off in a single elimination final.


2013 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Liberty outfielder/pitcher Ashton Perritt was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.


2013 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Big South Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big South Conference that took place from March 5–10, 2013, at the brand new HTC Center in Conway, South Carolina. Both semifinal games were broadcast on ESPN3, and the championship game was televised on ESPN2.


2013 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Both the men's and women's tournaments were held together at the HTC Center. The conference hadn't held combined men’s and women’s tournaments since 2001–02 when both events were played at the Roanoke Civic Center The tournament was won by the fifth-seeded North Division Liberty Flames, their third conference title, and first since 2004. With four wins in the tournament, including two over both divisions' top seeds, Liberty won the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, becoming only the second 20-loss team in the tournament's history (the other being Coppin State in 2007–08).


2013 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
With the addition of Longwood, and Presbyterian completing its Division I transition, all 12 teams were eligible for the 2013 tournament. Seeding was decided by divisions - the top two teams with the best overall conference records in each division received the top four seeds in the championship and first-round byes. The remaining seeds were determined based on division finish. In the event of a tie for a particular seed, the seed was determined within each division.


2013 Big South Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2013 Big South Conference Men's Soccer Tournament will be the 30th edition of the tournament. Held from Nov. 14-17, it will determine the Big South Conference champion, and the automatic berth into the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The Winthrop Eagles are the defending men's soccer champions.


2013 Big South Conference football season
The 2013 Big South Conference football season began on Thursday, August 29 and concluded in December with the 2014 NCAA Division I Football Championship. The regular season concluded on November 23, and Coastal Carolina won the conference's regular season championship and automatic bid to the playoffs. The Chanticleers defeated Bethune-Cookman in the first round and Montana in the second round before falling to eventual champion North Dakota State in the quarterfinals.


2013 Big South Conference football season, Preseason Poll Results, Preseason All-Conference Teams
Offensive Player of the Year: Lorenzo Taliaferro, Sr., RB (Coastal Carolina)Defensive Player of the Year: Quinn Backus, Jr., LB (Coastal Carolina)


2013 Big South Conference men's soccer season
The 2013 Big South Conference men's soccer season will be the 30th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. It will be the final Big South season for VMI, which will return to the Southern Conference in July 2014.


2013 Big South Conference men's soccer season
The defending regular season champions are the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, while the defending tournament champions are the Winthrop Eagles.


2013 Big South Conference men's soccer season, Changes from 2012
No schools entered or left the Big South Conference after the 2012 season, nor did any member school begin or drop men's soccer.


2013 Big Ten Baseball Tournament
The 2013 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Target Field in Minneapolis, MN from May 22 through 25. The six team, double-elimination tournament determined the league champion for the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball season. Indiana won the tournament to claim the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The event was aired on the Big Ten Network.


2013 Big Ten Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The 2013 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament. The top six teams based on conference regular season winning percentage earned invites to the tournament. The top two seeds received a single bye into the semifinals (2nd Round). The 1 seed played the lowest seeded Round 1 winner, while the 2 seed played the highest seeded Round 1 winner.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season
The 2013 Big Ten Conference football season was the 118th season for the Big Ten. The conference began its season on Thursday, August 29, as Minnesota and Indiana began their 2013 season of NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) competition. Michigan State began their season the following day, and the rest of the conference began their season on September 1.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season
This was the league's final season as a 12-team conference before Maryland and Rutgers join the Big Ten Conference for the 2014 season. It was also the final season with the "Leaders" and "Legends" divisions; when Maryland and Rutgers join, the conference will reorganize its divisions on a pure geographic basis. The six schools in the Central Time Zone will be joined by Purdue in the new West Division, with the other schools making up the East Division. Under the new setup, the only protected cross-division rivalry game will be Indiana–Purdue.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season
Michigan State upset undefeated Ohio State to win the Big Ten Championship Game. The B1G put seven teams into bowl games, including two into the BCS with Michigan State going to the Rose Bowl and Ohio State to the Orange Bowl. The B1G went 2-5 in bowl games with the only wins coming from Michigan State in the Rose Bowl and Nebraska in the Gator Bowl.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, Bowl games
The Big Ten did not have enough teams available to fill the Heart of Dallas Bowl and Little Caesars Pizza Bowl due to landing two teams in the BCS and also a lack of bowl eligible teams.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, All-Conference Players
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2013 Big Ten Conference football season, All-Conference Players
Illinois: Jonathan Brown, Steve Hull, Nathan Scheelhaase; Indiana: Ted Bolser, Tevin Coleman, Cody Latimer, Jason Spriggs; Iowa: Austin Blythe, Conor Boffeli, Christian Kirksey, B.J. Lowery, Tanner Miller, Louis Trinca-Pasat; Michigan: Jibreel Black, Michael Schofield; Michigan State: Jack Allen, Fou Fonoti, Dan France, Jeremy Langford, Marcus Rush, Trae Waynes; Minnesota: Caleb Bak, Aaron Hill, Peter Mortell, Eric Murray; Nebraska: Jason Ankrah, Kenny Bell, Corey Cooper, Andrew Rodriguez, Jeremiah Sirles; Northwestern: Ibraheim Campbell, Tyler Scott, Brandon Vitabile; Ohio State: C.J. Barnett, Drew Basil, Joey Bosa, Doran Grant, Marcus Hall, Jeff Heuerman, Cameron Johnston, Devin Smith; Penn State: Adrian Amos, Glenn Carson, Christian Hackenberg, Ty Howle, Jordan Lucas, C.J. Olaniyan, Donovan Smith; Purdue: Ricardo Allen; Wisconsin: Beau Allen, Rob Havenstein, Tyler Marz, Pat Muldoon, Jacob Pedersen, Dezmen Southward.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, All-Conference Players
Coaches selected six players as First Team All-Conference defensive backs and two players as First Team punters which resulted in less second team selections


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, All-Conference Players
Illinois: Houston Bates, Steve Hull; Indiana: Tim Bennett, Ted Bolser, Tevin Coleman, Mitch Ewald, Collin Rahrig, Jason Spriggs; Iowa: Austin Blythe, Conor Boffeli, Carl Davis, Anthony Hitchens, Christian Kirksey, Casey Kreiter, John Lowdermilk, Tanner Miller, Louis Trinca-Pasat; Brett Van Sloten; Michigan: Jibreel Black, Frank Clark, Devin Gardner, Brendan Gibbons, Raymon Taylor; Michigan State: Connor Cook, Fou Fonoti; Dan France, Michael Geiger, Jeremy Langford, Isaiah Lewis, Marcus Rush, Trae Waynes; Minnesota: Caleb Bak, Josh Campion, Zac Epping, Peter Mortell, Eric Murray, Brock Vereen; Nebraska: Jason Ankrah, Kenny Bell, Cole Pensick, Andrew Rodriguez, Jeremiah Sirles, Pat Smith; Northwestern: Chi Chi Ariguzo, Ibraheim Campbell, Damien Proby, Brandoo Vitabile; Ohio State: C.J. Barnett, Drew Basil, Joey Bosa, Corey Brown, Doran Grant, Marcus Hall, Jeff Heuerman, Cameron Johnston; Penn State: Glenn Carson, Sam Ficken, Christian Hackenberg, Ty Howle, Jesse James, Jordan Lucas, C.J. Olaniyan, Donovan Smith; Wisconsin: Beau Allen, Michael Caputo, Tyler Marz, Pat Muldoon, Jacob Pedersen, Sojourn Shelton, Dezmen Southward, Joel Stave.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, All-Americans
There are many outlets that award All-America honors in football. The NCAA uses five official selectors to also determine Consensus and Unanimous All-America honors. The five teams used by the NCAA to compile the consensus team are from the Associated Press, the AFCA, the FWAA, The Sporting News and the Walter Camp Football Foundation. A point system is used to calculate the consensus honors. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and three points for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, All-Americans
The teams are compiled by position and the player accumulating the most points at each position is named a Consensus All-American. If there is a tie at a position in football for first team then the players who are tied shall be named to the team. A player named first-team by all five of the NCAA-recognized selectors is recognized as a Unanimous All-American.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, Academic All-Americans
Once again the Big Ten led all conferences with eight student-athletes being named to the Capital One Academic All-America first or second teams as announced by CoSIDA. The Big Ten has now led all FBS conferences in Academic All-America selections for nine straight seasons, with a total of 72 honorees over that time span.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, Academic All-Americans
First Team: Mark Murphy, Indiana; James Morris, Iowa; Max Bullough, Michigan State; Mike Sadler, Michigan State; Spencer Long, Nebraska; John Urschel, Penn State; Second Team: Jake Long, Nebraska; C.J. Zimmerer, Nebraska.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, 2014 NFL Draft
30 Big Ten athletes were drafted in the 2014 NFL Draft.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, 2014 NFL Draft
N.B: In the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the 2014 Draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.


2013 Big Ten Conference football season, 2014 NFL Draft, NFL Draft Selections by NCAA Conference
SEC - 49ACC - 42Pac-12 - 34Big Ten - 30Big 12 - 17Mountain West - 16American - 12C-USA - 9Independents - 9MAC - 8Sun Belt - 4


2013 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season
The 2013 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season was the 23rd season of men's varsity soccer in the conference.


2013 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season
The defending regular season champions, Penn State Nittany Lions successfully defended their title. The Indiana Hoosiers won the 2013 Big Ten Conference Men's Soccer Tournament.


2013 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season, Changes from 2012
No new teams joined the conference in 2013; however, 2013 was the final season with seven schools competing, as Rutgers and Maryland joined in 2014.


2013 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season, Preseason
Defending national champion Indiana was picked to win the conference ahead of Michigan State.


2013 Big Ten Football Championship Game
The 2013 Big Ten Football Championship Game was a college football game that was played on December 7, 2013, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was the third annual Big Ten Football Championship Game, and determined the 2013 champion of the Big Ten Conference (B1G). The game featured the Leaders Division champion Ohio State Buckeyes against the Legends Division champion Michigan State Spartans. Michigan State defeated Ohio State 34–24, to win the Big Ten Championship, and  represent the conference in the 100th Rose Bowl game on January 1, 2014. The upset loss kept Ohio State out of the BCS National Championship game.


2013 Big Ten Football Championship Game
After 2013, a Michigan State–Ohio State match-up in the conference championship game would no longer be possible, as a result of both schools becoming part of the newly-formed East Division of the Big Ten.


2013 Big Ten Football Championship Game, History
The 2013 Championship Game was the third held in the Big Ten Conference in the Big Ten's 118-year history. The previous season, the unranked Wisconsin Badgers represented the Leaders division, despite having a worse record than fellow division members Ohio State and Penn State, both of which were banned from post-season play. The #14 ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers represented the Legends division, having only lost one game to undefeated Ohio State. That game ended 70–31 in Wisconsin's favor.


2013 Big Ten Football Championship Game, History
2013 marked the first appearance of Ohio State to the conference championship game, whereas it was Michigan State's second appearance. Prior to this game, the Leaders division was undefeated. Conversely, the lower-ranked opponent had won both prior matchups. After this season, the Legends and Leaders divisions were replaced with Eastern and Western divisions.


2013 Big Ten Football Championship Game, Teams, Ohio State
Ohio State came into 2013 ranked the #2 team in the nation, and their regular season results supported that claim. Having gone undefeated in 2012 but being denied a chance to compete for the Big Ten title or the BCS National Championship due to NCAA sanctions, Ohio State took care of business in 2013 by going 12–0 in regular season play. Many of their wins were by large margins, including a 76–0 win over Florida A&M, a 56–0 victory against Purdue, and a 63–14 triumph over Penn State.


2013 Big Ten Football Championship Game, Teams, Ohio State
That result was the most points Penn State had allowed since giving up 64 to the Duquesne Athletic Club in 1889, and the Ohio State offense set a new record for yards gained against Penn State with that game. In addition, Ohio State overcame ranked opponents in two consecutive weeks—first defeating #23 Wisconsin in Columbus, then traveling to Evanston, Illinois, to upend #16 Northwestern in a thriller under the lights. In their final game of the season, Ohio State defeated rival Michigan, surviving a last-second two-point conversion attempt by the Wolverines to hang on for a 42–41 victory.


2013 Big Ten Football Championship Game, Teams, Ohio State
The Buckeyes were led by their high-scoring offense. Ohio State averaged 48.2 points per game, the highest total in the Big Ten, and third highest in the NCAA. Their offensive strength was their rushing game, which ranked second nationally and first in the Big Ten with 321.3 yards per game. Overall, the offense averaged 530.5 yards per game, sixth-best in the NCAA and again leading the Big Ten.


2013 Big Ten Football Championship Game, Teams, Ohio State
Running back Carlos Hyde, who was suspended from the first three games of the season, finished the season with 1,290 yards, the first running back under Urban Meyer to top 1,000 yards in a season. Quarterback Braxton Miller also contributed heavily to the Buckeye rushing attack; Miller and Hyde combined for over 1,000 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns in the last three games of the season. Receivers Corey Brown and Devin Smith both had over 600 receiving yards to round out the Ohio State offense, which set a new school record with 35 passing touchdowns in a season.


2013 Big Ten Football Championship Game, Teams, Ohio State
Defensively, Ohio State was also very strong, particularly against the run. Coming into the game, Ohio State was one of two teams to not allow an opposing player to rush for 100 or more yards (the other being Syracuse). The total average yards per game allowed by opposing rushers was 100.0 at the end of the regular season, the fifth best total in the NCAA. Not only did Ryan Shazier led the Buckeye defense as a junior linebacker, he also led the Big Ten in tackles, tackles for loss, and forced fumbles. Noah Spence was second in sacks in the Big Ten with 8 coming into this game. All-American cornerback Bradley Roby anchored the Buckeye backfield.


2013 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held from March 14 through March 17 at United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The tournament was the 15th annual Big Ten Tournament and second to feature 12 teams. The championship was won by Ohio State who defeated Wisconsin in the championship game. As a result, Ohio State received the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The win marked Ohio State's fifth tournament championship, though one championship has since been vacated.


2013 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 12 Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. Seeding for the tournament was determined at the close of the regular conference season. The top four teams received a first-round bye. Tiebreaking procedures were unchanged from the 2012 tournament.


2013 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Seeding for the tournament was determined at the close of the regular season.


2013 Big Ten Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2013 Big Ten Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was the 23rd postseason tournament to determine the champion of the Big Ten Conference. The defending champion was Michigan State. The tournament was held from November 13–17, 2013.


2013 Big Ten Softball Tournament
The 2013 Big Ten Softball tournament was held at Bowlin Stadium on the campus of University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska from May 9 through May 12, 2013. As the tournament winner, Wisconsin earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.


2013 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held from March 7 through March 12 at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The Big Ten Network carried all games except the championship game which was aired by ESPN2. Purdue won the tournament and received an automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Tournament.


2013 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 12 Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2012–13 Big Ten Conference women's basketball season record. The top four teams received a first round bye.


2013 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place March 14–16, 2013 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The Tournament was previously held at the Anaheim Convention Center. The winner of the tournament received the conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.


2013 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The top eight teams qualified for the 2013 Big West Tournament. In the Semifinals the highest seed played the lowest seed, while the remaining two teams matched up. UC Riverside was ineligible for postseason play, and did not compete in the tournament. Cal State Northridge finished 9th so they didn't qualify to play in the Big West Tournament.


2013 Bihar flood
The monsoon season in the northern areas of Bihar, continuing rain in Himalayas, and a rise in water levels of the Ganges, Kosi, Gandak, Baghmati, and the Punpun gave rise to anticipated flooding for 2013.


2013 Bihar flood, Flooding
The 2013 Bihar flood started in the month of July. The Flood caused a huge loss in the terms of life and property. According to State Government estimate 201 people lost their lives. Over 20 districts have been affected by the Flood. It is the most disastrous flood in the state after 2008 Bihar flood. More than 5.9 million people in 3,768 villages in 20 districts have been affected, officials say.


2013 Bihar flood, Rescue Operations
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar himself supervised the Flood Relief Operations. The State Health Department started 306 Health Check Up Camps and 128 Veterinary Camps in the Flood affected areas. 22,623 tonnes of solid food items and 25 Crores of Cash was distributed among the victims of Flood, according to a Statement released by Bihar Government. A total of 50,550 polythene sheets was distributed among the flood-affected people.


2013 Bikini Basketball Association season
The 2013 Bikini Basketball Association season was the first season of the Bikini Basketball Association. The regular season began on June 22 and ended on August 17 with a championship series on September 21. While the Miami Spice went 5–0 to claim the regular season crown they were defeated by the Illinois Heart in the championship game.


2013 Bikini Basketball Association season, Regular season
The league began its inaugural season on June 22, 2013, with five teams of women selected for looks, personality, and playing ability. In late June 2013, the Philadelphia Diamonds shut down before their inaugural game. This reduced the league to four teams playing a combined total of 12 games over 10 weeks. The Miami Spice went 5–0, the Illinois Heart went 3–2, the Houston Inferno struggled to a 1–4 finish, and the Las Vegas Fantasy went 0–3 before folding in late July 2013. The Las Vegas collapse further reduced the number of completed games in the inaugural regular season to 9.