2013 Bikini Basketball Association season, Playoffs
Several weeks after the regular season ended, the league announced that the three surviving teams would compete in a two-game single-elimination tournament at the Kroc Center in Chicago on September 21, 2013. The Illinois Heart defeated the Houston Inferno 94–77 to advance to the championship later that day. Illinois defeated the regular season champion Miami Spice 96–89 to claim the league championship.


2013 Bilderberg Conference
The 2013 Bilderberg Conference took place June 6–9, 2013, at The Grove hotel in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. It was the first Bilderberg Group conference to be held in the United Kingdom since the 1998 meeting in Turnberry, Scotland.


2013 Bilderberg Conference
The Daily Telegraph likened the annual conference to "a political version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which draws members of high society to discuss business and the economy." A British Member of Parliament and former Bilderberg attendee quoted by the Independent on Sunday also likened the annual conference to the World Economic Forum, and said it was "...not that exciting, in fact it's a bit run of the mill".


2013 Bilderberg Conference
Around 140 participants are expected to participate in the meetings annually. Attendance to the event is by invitation only. No delegates pay to attend the conferences, and no delegates attend by conference phone or satellite. The conference programme never includes entertainment or performances.


2013 Bilderberg Conference
The confidential nature of Bilderberg led to criticism of the group's lack of transparency and accountability, along with concerns about potential lobbying. Outside the 2013 meeting, Labour MP Michael Meacher said, "If there is any conference which required transparency, which required democratic accountability, it is the Bilderberg conference because this is really where the top brass of Western finance capitalism meet ... including government ministers." Conservative MP Douglas Carswell was also concerned about the privacy of the meetings, by saying "...you would have thought the least our ruling elite could do is discuss these issues in public."


2013 Bilderberg Conference
There has also been speculation from conspiracy theorists about the purpose of the meetings. The secretive approach to staging the conferences has led to the younger generation of Bilderberg attendees being uncomfortable with the policy of total media exclusion, as reported by the Independent on Sunday. A previous attendee told the Independent that he sympathised with "those who tell us the confidentiality policy only encourages the conspiracy theorists. It does."


2013 Bilderberg Conference
Of the format and outcome of the conference, the Bilderberg website said, "There is no detailed agenda, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued."


2013 Bilderberg Conference
A Bilderberg Fringe Festival was held near the conference. The festival featured speakers, comedy, music, workshops, arts and entertainment.


2013 Bilderberg Conference
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, attended the conference on 7 June. Cameron attended in a private capacity and was not accompanied by civil servants, even though it is customary for the Prime Minister to be accompanied by civil servants when he meets business leaders.


2013 Bilderberg Conference, Press coverage
Journalists were banned from attending the event, with the exception of Lilli Gruber, although a press office was provided by the Bilderberg Group. The group is represented by a German corporate communications firm.


2013 Bilderberg Conference, Press coverage
The meeting was well covered by the British media, with frequent Bilderberg writer Charlie Skelton noting the presence of Reuters, the Associated Press, Channel 4 News, The Times and the Press Association.


2013 Bilderberg Conference, Agenda
A list of key topics for discussion at the 2013 Bilderberg conference was published on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting. Topics for discussion included:


2013 Bilderberg Conference, Delegates (alphabetical)
For the first time, a list of expected delegates was published by the Bilderberg Group.


2013 Bilderberg Conference, Policing
A private security company provided security at the hotel; in addition, the Bilderberg Group agreed to contribute toward the policing costs of the event. The local police force, Hertfordshire Police, were in talks with the Home Office about a grant for potential "unexpected or exceptional costs". The grant is provided if the costs threaten the "stability of their policing budget". A combined force of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Cambridge constabularies prepared for the conference, with the assistance of specialist officers from the Metropolitan Police.


2013 Bilderberg Conference, Policing
Five rugby pitches belonging to the Fullerians RFC were hired by police for the duration of the event. The police operation for the Bilderberg conference was called Operation Discuss, and had been running for eighteen months prior to the start of the conference. The cost of policing was revealed after the conference to have been in the region of £1.3 million, with £500,000 having been offered to the police by the Bilderberg Group.


2013 Bilderberg Conference, Policing
The mayor of Watford, Dorothy Thornhill, said that she had concerns that the conference "does attract people who can and do cause violence and disturbance" but was confident that the police will "be able to minimise that and give them their right to protest". She was additionally "ambivalent about whether this is a good thing. It's potentially a positive thing as long as things don't kick off."


2013 Bill Beaumont Cup
The 2013 Bill Beaumont Cup, also known as Bill Beaumont Cup Division One, was the 113th version of the annual, English rugby union, County Championship organized by the RFU for the top tier English counties. Each county drew its players from rugby union clubs from the third tier and below of the English rugby union league system (typically National League 1, National League 2 South or National League 2 North). The counties were divided into two regional pools with the winners of each pool meeting in the final held at Twickenham Stadium. New counties to the competition included Durham County (north) and Kent (south) who won their respective groups in the 2012 County Championship Plate. Hertfordshire were the defending champions.


2013 Bill Beaumont Cup
The northern group was won by last year's runners up, Lancashire, who booked a place in their fifth successive final in what was a very close group, edging Cheshire and Yorkshire by virtue of a superior bonus points record. They were joined by southern group winners, Cornwall, who were appearing in their first Twickenham final since 1999. Cornwall had perhaps an easier route through to the final, winning all three games, but looked very impressive in their six try demolition of last year's winners, Hertfordshire, in their final pool game to book their place. Both promoted counties, Durham County and Kent, were relegated to the 2014 County Championship Plate.


2013 Bill Beaumont Cup
Over 10,000 Cornish fans made the journey to Twickenham but were unable to help their team to victory as Lancashire emerged victorious by defeating Cornwall, 35 - 26, in what was an exciting game. Lancashire's Nick Royle had an excellent tournament by finishing top try scorer with 5 including 1 in the final, while Cornwall's Paul Thirlby was the tournament's top scorer with 47 points.


2013 Bill Beaumont Cup, Competition format
The competition format was two regional group stages divided into north and south, with each team playing each other once. This meant that two teams in the pool had two home games, while the other two had just one. The top side in each group went through to the final held at Twickenham Stadium on 26 May 2013.


2013 Billboard Music Awards
The 2013 Billboard Music Awards ceremony was held on May 19, 2013 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was aired on ABC at 8:00/7:00 PM central. The show was hosted by Tracy Morgan.


2013 Billboard Music Awards, Live-GIFs
Tumblr chose the 2013 Billboard Music Awards as the basis for their first live TV integration. Creative agency Deckhouse Digital was hired for the event, designing an innovative live-gif system which allowed them to produce animated GIFs during the broadcast, and post them directly to Billboard's tumblr page in real time. Users of the blogging site were able to view and share animated images of  events unfolding on stage just minutes after watching them live on ABC.


2013 Bintaro train crash
The Bintaro rail crash occurred on 9 December 2013 when a KRL Commuterline train crashed into a Pertamina gasoline tanker at a railroad crossing in Bintaro, Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday morning, causing at least one female-only carriage to overturn and burst into flames. At least 7 people were killed (including the three train drivers) and another 63 were wounded in the crash.


2013 Birthday Honours
The 2013 Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. The Queen's Birthday Honours were announced on 15 June 2013 in the United Kingdom, on 10 June 2013 in Australia on 3 June 2013 in New Zealand, on 15 June 2013 in Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia and Belize.


2013 Birthday Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by the country (in order of precedence) whose ministers advised The Queen on the appointments, then by honour with grades i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander etc. and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.


2013 Birthday Honours, United Kingdom
The 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours list was published on 15 June 2013 by The London Gazette.


2013 Birthday Honours, Australia
The Queen's Birthday Honours 2013 for Australia were announced on 10 June 2013.


2013 Birthday Honours, Grenada
The Queen's Birthday Honours List for 2013 was announced in the London Gazette on 15 June 2013.


2013 Birthday Honours, Papua New Guinea
The Queen's Birthday Honours List for 2013 was announced in the London Gazette on 15 June 2013.


2013 Birthday Honours, Solomon Islands
The Queen's Birthday Honours List for 2013 was announced in the London Gazette on 15 June 2013.


2013 Birthday Honours, Tuvalu
The Queen's Birthday Honours List for 2013 was announced in the London Gazette on 15 June 2013.


2013 Birthday Honours, Saint Lucia
The Queen's Birthday Honours List for 2013 was announced in the London Gazette on 15 June 2013.


2013 Birthday Honours, Belize
The Queen's Birthday Honours List for 2013 was announced in the London Gazette on 15 June 2013.


2013 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 3 June 2013.


2013 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


2013 Biryulyovo riots
On 13 October 2013, riots in Biryulyovo Zapadnoye, a district in southern Moscow, erupted. The riots were in response to news that Egor Shcherbakov, a 25-year-old man who was killed on 10 October, had allegedly been attacked by a migrant who "might have come from Central Asia or the Caucasus". The footage of Shcherbakov being stabbed was circulated by news agencies.


2013 Biryulyovo riots
The police announced a reward of 1 million rubles (~$30,975) for any information about the suspect.


2013 Biryulyovo riots
On 14 October, the police arrested more than 1,200 migrant workers where the killer allegedly lived.


2013 Biryulyovo riots
On 15 October, Orkhan Zeynalov, an Azerbaijani citizen, was arrested in Kolomna as a suspect in the killing of Shcherbakov.


2013 Biryulyovo riots
Vostryakovsky Lane where the murder occurred and the initial gatherings begun


2013 Biryulyovo riots
Bulatnikovskaya Street, the location of most major events of 13 October 2013


2013 Bitburger Open Grand Prix Gold
The 2013 Bitburger Open Grand Prix Gold was the fourteenth Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix tournament of the 2013 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament was held in Saarlandhalle, Saarbrücken, Germany October 29 until November 3, 2013 and had a total purse of $120,000.


2013 Biñan local elections
Local elections was held in  Biñan City on May 13, 2013 within the Philippine general election. The voters elected for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, and ten councilors.


2013 Biñan local elections, Overview
Incumbent Mayor Marlyn "Len-Len" Alonte-Naguiat decided to run as a re-electionist under the Liberal Party, her opponents are Reynaldo Cardeño, NPC's nominee and Joaquin Borja an independent candidate.


2013 Biñan local elections, Overview
Mayor Marlyn's running mate is Walfredo Dimaguila, Jr. also under the Liberal Party.


2013 Biñan local elections, Results
The candidates for mayor and vice mayor with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected.


2013 Biñan local elections, Results, City Council
Voters will elect ten (10) councilors to comprise the City Council or the Sangguniang Panlungsod. Candidates are voted separately so there are chances where winning candidates will have unequal number of votes and may come from different political parties. The ten candidates with the highest number of votes win the seats.


2013 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
The 2013 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes was the 89th running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. The race took place on May 17, 2013, and was televised in the United States on the NBC Sports Network. Ridden by jockey Joel Rosario, Fiftyshadesofhay won the race by a scant neck over runner-up Marathon Lady. Approximate post time on the Friday evening before the Preakness Stakes was 4:47 p.m. Eastern Time. The Maryland Jockey Club raised the purse to $500,000 for the 89th running. This made The Black-Eyed-Susan Stakes the third highest payout for a race restricted to three-year-old fillies. The race was run over a fast track in a final time of 1:52.73. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 39,957. The attendance at Pimlico Race Course that day was a record crowd for Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Day.


2013 Blancpain Endurance Series
The 2013 Blancpain Endurance Series season was the third season of the Blancpain Endurance Series. The season commenced on 14 April at Monza and ended on 22 September at the Nürburgring. The season featured five rounds, with each race lasting for a duration of three hours besides the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and the 1000 km Nürburgring events.


2013 Blancpain Endurance Series, Calendar
In July 2012, the Stéphane Ratel Organisation announced the 2013 calendar. The calendar did not differ much from the previous season. Only the event at Navarra was discontinued.


2013 Blancpain Endurance Series, Entry list
On 8 April 2013, SRO released the provisional entry list for the first round at Monza.


2013 Blancpain Endurance Series, Championship standings
Championship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each Championship Race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race. There were no points awarded for the Pole Position.


2013 Blancpain Endurance Series, Championship standings
Points were awarded after six hours, after twelve hours and at the finish.


2013 Blancpain Endurance Series Monza round
Round 1 of the 2013 Blancpain Endurance Series season took place at Monza, Italy on 14 April 2013. A field of 60 GT3 cars competed in the 3-hour endurance race. The race was won by the Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 of Kessel Racing, driven by Daniel Zampieri, César Ramos and Davide Rigon.


2013 Blancpain Endurance Series Monza round, Official results
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2013 Blancpain Endurance Series Silverstone round
Round 2 of the 2013 Blancpain Endurance Series season took place at Silverstone Circuit on 2 June 2013. A field of 57 GT3 cars competed in the 3-hour endurance race. The race was won by the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 of Aston Martin Racing, driven by Darren Turner, Fred Makowiecki and Stefan Mucke.


2013 Blancpain Endurance Series Silverstone round, Official results
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2013 Bloomington Edge season
The 2013 Bloomington Edge season was the team's seventh overall, second as the Bloomington Edge and first as a member of the Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL). One of ten teams in the CPIFL for the inaugural 2013 season, the Edge finished the regular season with a 5-7 record, failing to qualify for the postseason.


2013 Bloomington Edge season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated July 10, 201326 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


2013 Blossom Cup
The 2013 Blossom Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fourth 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 Quanzhou, China, on 7–13 January 2013.


2013 Blossom Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Blossom Cup – Doubles
Chan Hao-ching and Rika Fujiwara were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.


2013 Blossom Cup – Doubles
Irina Buryachok and Nadiya Kichenok won the tournament, defeating Liang Chen and Sun Shengnan in the final, 3–6, 6–3, [12–10].


2013 Blossom Cup – Singles
Kimiko Date-Krumm was the defending champion, but chose to compete at the 2013 Apia International Sydney instead.


2013 Blossom Cup – Singles
Varatchaya Wongteanchai won the tournament, defeating Nadiya Kichenok in the final, 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5).


2013 Blues season
The 2013 Blues season will be the team's 18th season in the Super Rugby competition. The Blues' pre-season began on February 2, and the regular season began on February 23. The team played 16 regular season matches, with byes in rounds 5 and 10. They did not play in rounds 1 and 17, which was only be contested by Australian teams as a result of the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia. The Blues played all teams within the New Zealand conference twice, and all other teams once, with the exception of the Western Force and Southern Kings. The 2013 team was captained by Ali Williams and coached by Sir John Kirwan.


2013 Blues season, Pre-season
The first of three pre-season fixtures was on the 2nd of February against the Queensland Reds in Toowoomba. This was followed by a home match against the New South Wales Waratahs at Toll Stadium on February 9 and a final match on February 15 against the Highlanders at Queenstown Events Centre.


2013 Blues season, Regular season
The Blues regular season will begin on February 23 with an away fixture against the Hurricanes, and will finish on July 13, with a home fixture against the Chiefs.


2013 Blues season, Tour Matches
On the 4th of April it was announced that the Blues would play a one-off match against France as a midweek fixture during their tour of New Zealand in June. The match was held on June 11 at North Harbour Stadium and was the first time a New Zealand-based Super Rugby team has played against an international side.


2013 Blues season, Player Summary
Player statistics through round five of the 2013 Super Rugby season are shown below:


2013 Blues season, Player Summary, Overall Summary
Legend: Apps. = Appearances, Cons. = Conversions, Pens. = Penalties, Drps. = Drop Goals, Pts. = Total points, W.C. = White cards, Y.C. = Yellow cards, R.C. = Red cards


2013 Blues season, Standings
The standings through the final round of the 2013 season are shown below:


2013 Blues season, Standings
Source:  Legend: Pos = Position, Rnd = Round, W = Win, D = Draw, L = Loss, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, PD = Points Difference, TB = Four-try bonus points, LB = Close loss bonus points, Pts = Competition Points


2013 Blues season, Round by Round Result Summary
Legend: H = Home, A = Away, W = Win, D = Draw, L = Loss, B = Bye, Pos = Position, Conf = Conference


2013 Bob and Mike Bryan tennis season
The 2013 Bob and Mike Bryan tennis season officially commenced on 31 December 2012 with the start of the 2013 ATP World Tour. However, they did not choose to compete until a week later at Apia International Sydney, which started on January 7, 2013.


2013 Bob and Mike Bryan tennis season, Year in detail, Early Hardcourt events, Australian Open
The Bryans further cemented their legacy in tennis history at the season's first Grand Slam event, the Australian Open. Their victory in Melbourne was their 13th Grand Slam men's doubles title, the all-time record for a men's doubles team. They had previously been tied with Australians John Newcombe and Tony Roche.


2013 Bob and Mike Bryan tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court events, French Open
They claimed their 14th Grand Slam win at the French Open, which just happened to be their second at the event, but in the interim had three final appearances.


2013 Bob and Mike Bryan tennis season, Year in detail, Grass court events, Wimbledon
The Bryans won their 15th Grand Slam title, becoming the first men's doubles team ever in the Open era to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time.


2013 Bob and Mike Bryan tennis season, All matches
This table chronicles all the matches of Bob and Mike Bryan in 2013, including walkovers (W/O) which the ATP does not count as wins. They are marked ND for non-decision or no decision.


2013 Bocaue local elections
Local elections were held in  Bocaue on May 13, 2013 within the Philippine general election. The voters elected for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, and eight councilors.


2013 Bocaue local elections, Mayoral and vice mayoral election
Incumbent Mayor Eduardo "Jon Jon" Villanueva Jr. decided to seek reelection under Liberal, however he is still member of Bangon Pilipinas, he faced incumbent vice mayor Jose Santiago, Jr. of PMP, former Mayor Serafin Dela Cruz under Lakas-CMD, and Independent Candidates Rodolfo Dela Cruz and Gregorio Dela Cruz, Sr.


2013 Bocaue local elections, Mayoral and vice mayoral election
Villanueva's running mate was Councilor Dioscoro Juan, Jr., son of a former Bocaue Mayor Dioscoro Juan.


2013 Bocaue local elections, Results
The candidates for mayor and vice mayor with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected.


2013 Bocaue local elections, Municipal Council election
Voting is via plurality-at-large voting: Voters vote for eight candidates and the top eight candidates with the highest number of votes are elected.


2013 Bocaue local elections, Municipal Council election, Results
The top eight winning councilors duly elected on May 13, 2013 elections:


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding
In 2013, the second year of service for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a widebody jet airliner, several aircraft suffered from electrical system problems stemming from its lithium-ion batteries. Incidents included an electrical fire aboard an All Nippon Airways 787 and a similar fire found by maintenance workers on a parked Japan Airlines 787 at Boston's Logan International Airport.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding
The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a review into the design and manufacture of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, followed by a full grounding of the entire Boeing 787 fleet, the first such grounding since that of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 in 1979. The plane has had two major battery thermal runaway events in 52,000 flight hours, which was substantially less than the 10 million flight hours predicted by Boeing, neither of which were contained safely.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a report on December 1, 2014, and assigned blame to several groups:


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Timeline
On January 7, 2013, a battery overheated and started a fire in an empty 787 operated by Japan Airlines (JAL) at Boston's Logan International Airport. On January 9, United Airlines reported a problem in one of its six 787s. The wiring was located in the same area as where the battery fire occurred on JAL's airliner; subsequently, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board opened a safety probe.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Timeline
On January 11, 2013, the FAA announced a comprehensive review of the 787's critical systems, including the aircraft's design, manufacture and assembly. U.S. Department of Transportation secretary Ray LaHood stated the administration was "looking for the root causes" behind the recent issues. The head of the FAA, Michael Huerta, said that nothing found so far "suggests [the 787] is not safe". Japan's transport ministry also launched an investigation in response.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Timeline
On January 16, 2013, an All Nippon Airways (ANA) 787 made an emergency landing at Takamatsu Airport on Shikoku Island after the flight crew received a computer warning of smoke present inside one of the electrical compartments. ANA said that there was an error message in the cockpit, citing a battery malfunction. Passengers and crew were evacuated using the emergency slides. There are no fire-suppression systems in the electrical compartments holding batteries, only smoke detectors.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Timeline
U.S.-based aviation regulators' oversight into the 2007 safety approval and FAA certification of the 787 came under scrutiny, as a key U.S. Senate committee prepared for a hearing into the procedures of aviation safety certification "in coming weeks". However, an FAA spokesperson defended their 2007 safety certification of the 787 by saying, "the whole aviation system is designed so that if the worst case happens, there are systems in place to prevent that from interfering with other systems on the plane."


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Timeline
On February 12, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that "Aviation safety investigators are examining whether the formation of microscopic structures known as dendrites inside the Boeing Co. 787's lithium-ion batteries played a role in twin incidents that prompted the fleet to be grounded nearly a month ago."


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Timeline
On January 14, 2014, Japan Airlines said a maintenance crew at Narita Airport discovered smoke coming from the main battery of one of its Boeing 787 jets, two hours before the plane was due to fly to Bangkok from Tokyo. Maintenance workers found smoke and unidentified liquid coming from the main battery, and alarms in the cockpit indicated faults with the power pack and its charger. The airline said no other equipment was affected by the incident. The cause was not immediately known, and the airline investigated the incident.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Timeline
Soon after this incident, The Guardian noted that "The [U.S. Federal Aviation Administration] also launched a review of the design, manufacture, and assembly of the 787 in January last year and said its report would be released last summer, but it has so far not released the report and has not responded to questions about when it will be finished."


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Timeline
On November 13, 2017, a United Airlines Boeing 787 had a lithium-ion battery experience overheating on approach to Charles de Gaulle Airport. A spokesman for Boeing said, "the plane experienced a fault with a single cell", adding that it was not a safety of flight issue.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Groundings
On January 16, 2013, both major Japanese airlines ANA and JAL announced that they were voluntarily grounding or suspending flights for their fleets of 787s after multiple incidents involving different 787s, including emergency landings. These two carriers operated 24 of the 50 Dreamliners delivered to that date. It was estimated the grounding could cost ANA over $1.1 million a day.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Groundings
On January 16, 2013, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an emergency airworthiness directive ordering all U.S.-based airlines to ground their Boeing 787s until yet-to-be-determined modifications were made to the electrical system to reduce the risk of the battery overheating or catching fire. This was the first time that the FAA had grounded an airliner type since 1979. The FAA also announced plans to conduct an extensive review of the 787's critical systems. The review's focus was on the safety of the lithium-ion batteries that use lithium cobalt oxide(LiCoO2) as the positive electrode.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Groundings
These electrodes are known for their thermal runaway hazard and provide oxygen for a fire. The 787 battery contract was signed in 2005, when LiCoO2 batteries were the only type of lithium aerospace battery available. Still, since then, newer and safer types (such as LiFePO4) and LiMn2O4 (lithium manganate), which provide less reaction energy during thermal runaway, have become available. The FAA approved a 787 battery in 2007 with nine "special conditions". A battery approved by the FAA (through Mobile Power Solutions) was made by Rose Electronics using Kokam cells, but the batteries installed in the 787 were made by Yuasa.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Groundings
On January 20, the NTSB declared that overvoltage was not the cause of the Boston incident, as voltage did not exceed the battery limit of 32 V, and the charging unit passed tests. The battery had signs of short-circuiting and thermal runaway. Despite this, on January 24, the NTSB announced that it had not yet pinpointed the cause of the Boston fire; the FAA would not allow U.S.-based Dreamliners to fly again until the problem was found and corrected.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Groundings
In a press briefing that day, NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman said that the NTSB had found evidence of the failure of multiple safety systems designed to prevent these battery problems and stated that fire must never happen on an aircraft. The Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) has said on January 23 that the battery in ANA jets in Japan reached a maximum voltage of 31 V (lower than the 32 V limit like the Boston JAL 787), but had a sudden unexplained voltage drop to near zero. All cells had signs of thermal damage before the thermal runaway. ANA and JAL had replaced several 787 batteries before the mishaps. As of January 29, 2013, JTSB approved the Yuasa factory quality control while the American NTSB continues to look for defects in the Boston battery.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Groundings
Industry experts disagreed on the consequences of the grounding: Boeing's competitor Airbus was confident that Boeing would resolve the issue and that no airlines would switch to a different type of aircraft, while other experts saw the problem as "costly" and "could take upwards of a year."


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Groundings
Only two U.S.-based airlines operated the Dreamliner at the time – United Airlines and American Airlines. Chile's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) grounded LAN Airlines' three 787s. The Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) directed Air India to ground its six Dreamliners. The Japanese Transport Ministry made the ANA and JAL groundings official and indefinite following the FAA announcement. The European Aviation Safety Agency also followed the FAA's advice and grounded the only two European 787s operated by LOT Polish Airlines. Qatar Airways announced it was grounding its five Dreamliners. Ethiopian Air was the final operator to announce temporary groundings, of its four Dreamliners.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Groundings
As of January 17, 2013, all 50 of the aircraft were grounded. On January 18, Boeing announced that it was halting 787 deliveries until the battery problem was resolved. On February 4, 2013, the FAA permitted Boeing to conduct test flights of 787 aircraft to gather additional data.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Solution
The Federal Aviation Administration decided on April 19, 2013, to allow U.S. Dreamliners to return to service after changes were made to their battery systems to contain battery fires better. Japanese authorities announced they were doing the same for their airplanes.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Solution
In 2013 concern remained that the solutions put in place by Boeing will not be able to cover the full range of possible failure modes. These include problems that may arise from poor systems integration between the engine indicating and crew alerting system (EICAS) and the battery management system.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Solution
A report adopted November 21, 2014, by the National Transportation Safety Board determined that "the probable cause of this incident was an internal short circuit within a cell [cell 5 or cell 6] of the auxiliary power unit (APU) lithium-ion battery, which led to a thermal runaway that cascaded to adjacent cells, resulting in the release of smoke and fire.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Solution
The incident resulted from Boeing's failure to incorporate design requirements to mitigate the most severe effects of an internal short circuit within an APU battery cell and the Federal Aviation Administration's failure to identify this design deficiency during the type design certification process." The report also made recommendations to the FAA, Boeing, and the battery manufacturer.


2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding, Solution
The Japan Civil Aviation Bureau was reported to have called for Boeing to redesign the battery "beyond the recommendations from two previous investigations about the 2013 battery incidents by the Japan Transportation Safety Board (JTSB) and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)." The Boeing's enclosure had to add 185 lb (84 kg) heavier, negating the lighter battery potential.


2013 Boels–Dolmans season
The 2013 women's road cycling season was the fourth for the  Boels Dolmans Cycling Team, which began as the Dolmans Landscaping Team in 2010.


2013 Boels–Dolmans season, Roster
As of 1 January 2013. Ages as of 1 January 2013.


2013 Boels–Dolmans season, UCI World Ranking
The team finished eleventh in the UCI ranking for teams.


2013 Bohol earthquake
The 2013 Bohol earthquake occurred on October 15 at 8:12:31 PST in Bohol, an island province located in Central Visayas, Philippines. The magnitude of the earthquake was recorded at Mw 7.2, with epicenter 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) S 24° W of Sagbayan, and its depth of focus was 12 kilometres (7.5 mi). It affected the whole Central Visayas region, particularly Bohol and Cebu. The earthquake was felt in the whole Visayas area and as far as Masbate island in the north and Cotabato provinces in southern Mindanao.


2013 Bohol earthquake
According to official reports by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), 222 were reported dead, 8 were missing, and 976 people were injured. In all, more than 73,000 structures were damaged, of which more than 14,500 were totally destroyed.


2013 Bohol earthquake
It was the deadliest earthquake in the Philippines in 23 years since the 1990 Luzon earthquake. The energy released by the quake was equivalent to 32 of the bombs dropped in Hiroshima. Previously, Bohol was also hit by an earthquake on February 8, 1990 that damaged several buildings and caused a tsunami.


2013 Bohol earthquake
On November 7, just three weeks after the earthquake, Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) struck the region. Although the storm's eye missed the area affected by the earthquake, it sent some 40,000 Boholanos still living in temporary shelters back to evacuation centers and disrupted relief efforts in the province.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Geology
Initially it was thought that the epicenter was 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of Carmen, Bohol, triggered by the East Bohol Fault. But according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), the 7.2 earthquake may have been caused by a previously undiscovered fault transecting Bohol running ENE-WSW parallel to the island's northwest coast. This was apparent in the pattern of epicenters of the subsequent aftershocks.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Geology
The 15 October 2013 magnitude (Mw) 7.2 Bohol earthquake produced an approximate 50 kilometres (31 mi) long, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) wide northeast trending zone of uplift with an approximate 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) long discontinuous ground rupture indicating predominantly reverse‐slip movement on a southeast dipping fault.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Geology
Displacement along the northeastern segment of the NBF in Inabanga is significantly larger in the northeast than in the southwest. In the northeast, the displacement is mostly 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) and reaches a maximum of 5 metres (16 ft), while in the southwest, the displacement is mostly less than 1 metre (3 ft 3 in). The maximum and average displacements, which were measured along the nearly continuous approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) long ground rupture in Sitio Cumayot, Barangay Anonang, Inabanga, are around 5 and 2 metres (16.4 and 6.6 ft), respectively.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Geology
Documentation of the nearly continuous northern terminus of the 2013 Bohol earthquake ground rupture revealed its association to preexisting scarps of the previously unmapped, Quaternary‐active North Bohol Fault. Trenching across the rupture at four sites not only reveals the geometry and kinematics of the fault but also shows at least one or two pre‐2013 surface rupturing events. Onshore geologic mapping and offshore seismic reflection profiles demonstrate the presence of an island‐wide, northeast‐southwest trending fold‐and‐thrust belt through which deformation related to the regional shortening across the Visayan Sea Basin in the central Philippines is likely distributed.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Geology, North Bohol Fault
PHIVOLCS reported that the North Bohol Fault (NBF), which generated the Mw 7.2 earthquake, is a northeast–southwest trending reverse fault along the western sector of Bohol island. Surface ruptures ranging from 0.10 metres (3.9 in) to as high as 5 metres (16 ft) in vertical displacements were exposed in barangay Anonang in Inabanga, Bohol. The mapped surface of NBF is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) long from barangay New Anonang in Buenavista to barangay Napo in Inabanga and generally trends 40 degrees northeast and dips at 50 degrees southeast. The team continues to map its probable extension of NBF northeast of Inabanga towards Getafe and southwest towards Loon and Maribojoc.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Geology, North Bohol Fault
The longest, continuous individual trace mapped by the team is approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in Anonang. In this barangay, surface rupture trends 40 degrees northeast. The surface rupture manifested as prominent fault scarps, which range from 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) to 5 metres (16 ft) of vertical displacements. Other geomorphic manifestations observed in Anonang include 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) vertical displacement of Cawasan Creek in Sitio Calubian, producing a small waterfall at the point where the fault transects the creek. Other typical features associated with reverse faulting, such as scallops, bulges and warps, were also observed in the deformation zone, which extended as wide as 30 metres (98 ft) in some places.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Geology, Aftershocks
Aftershocks continued to rattle Bohol Island and Cebu for several months. By December 6, 2013, 4,026 aftershocks were recorded, 114 of which were felt. Included in the aftershocks was the 5.3 magnitude tremor experienced at 12:59 a.m. on October 26, and another 4.8 magnitude quake at 1:28 p.m. on November 12, centered at San Isidro, Bohol.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Warnings
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a Pacific-wide tsunami threat. The United States Geological Survey issued a yellow warning, saying "some casualties and damage are possible and the impact should be relatively localized. Past yellow alerts have required a local or regional level response." SHOA, of the Chilean Navy, stated the earthquake would not affect national or South American coasts.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Casualties and infrastructure damage
The earthquake struck as the Philippines was observing the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Adha. The public holiday had closed schools, some businesses, and offices which helped reduce the number of casualties.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Casualties and infrastructure damage
A total of ₱2.25 billion worth of damage to public buildings, roads, bridges, and flood controls was reported in Bohol and Cebu. A total of 671,103 families or more than 3.2 million people were affected by the quake. Out of the total number of affected, 71,822 families or more than 348,000 people were displaced.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Casualties and infrastructure damage, Bohol
By far the most casualties and damage occurred in Bohol. A total of 209 people were confirmed dead, 877 people were confirmed injured, and 8 confirmed missing. A rough estimate of the damage is expected to be at least at ₱2.2 billion. The town of Loon had the largest number fatalities (67). Also, a total of 1,255,128 people (the province's entire population) were affected by the quake. Nearly 71,900 residential houses were damaged (out of which 14,480 were totally destroyed), with the towns of Loon, Tubigon, Carmen, and Calape among the worst affected.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Casualties and infrastructure damage, Bohol
A building at the Tagbilaran Port Terminal and a ceiling of the second floor and the airport tower of Tagbilaran Airport in Tagbilaran collapsed. Loboc Church, Loon Church and Maribojoc Church collapsed; the façade of Baclayon Church and its bell tower were totally damaged. Other churches, including those in Loay, Dauis, Dimiao, and Tubigon were also severely damaged. In Carmen, a freestanding bell tower and an observation deck in the island's renowned Chocolate Hills were destroyed, with some hills themselves damaged by landslides.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Casualties and infrastructure damage, Bohol
Several government buildings and numerous schools in the province were also partially or totally damaged, including the municipal halls of twelve towns. The provincial district hospital in Loon collapsed, trapping and killing an unknown number of patients. Some 32 bridges, including many along the National Road, and 13 road sections were damaged and impassable, hampering aid efforts. Energy services in the province were also cut off.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Casualties and infrastructure damage, Cebu
Intensity 5 to 6 was experienced at Metro and Southern Cebu, while the rest of Cebu experience intensity 6. 12 people were confirmed dead, 96 people injured, and a total of 404,107 families or more than 1.9 million people were affected by the quake.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Casualties and infrastructure damage, Cebu
Several structures in Cebu City incurred total and partial damage. A building in Pasil Fish Port in Cebu City collapsed killing five people and injuring seven people. The Basilica Minore del Santo Niño's bell tower also collapsed. Cebu Provincial Capitol was badly hit by the quake. Several hospitals such as Cebu Doctors' University Hospital and St. Vincent Hospital incurred damage. A stampede in a Cebu gym caused five deaths and injured eight. A part of Mandaue City Public Market also collapsed, reportedly killing a vendor.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Casualties and infrastructure damage, Other Visayas islands
Intensity VI was recorded in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental; intensity V in Iloilo, Bacolod, La Carlota, Guimaras, Abuyog, Baybay, and Bato in Leyte, Hinunangan, Saint Bernard, Maasin and Macrohon in Southern Leyte, and Sibulan in Negros Oriental; intensity IV in Roxas City, Masbate, Bulusan in Sorsogon, Patnongon and San Jose in Antique, Leon in Antique, Tacloban in Leyte, Tabon, and Borongan in Samar ; Intensity IV and V at various towns in Aklan.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Casualties and infrastructure damage, Other Visayas islands
In Negros Occidental, several private buildings incurred damage. In Iloilo, the administration office of Iloilo Airport was slightly damaged. In Siquijor, one person had died and three people were injured from the quake. Two people, one from Negros Oriental and one from Iloilo, were also injured.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Casualties and infrastructure damage, Mindanao
The quake was felt in intensity V in Cagayan de Oro and Gingoog in Misamis Oriental, Surigao and Butuan in Agusan del Norte; intensity IV in Davao City, Cotabato, Zamboanga, Bukidnon, Zamboanga del Norte and Tacurong but no people were reported dead. There were no casualties, and damage to properties and infrastructures in Mindanao.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Effects, Transportation
Several flights from Cebu and Bohol airports and the airport operations itself were put on hold as response to check the safety status of the airport buildings. Mactan International Airport in Mactan was later opened before midday, flights between Manila and Bohol were delayed due to temporary suspension of operations in Tagbilaran Airport for about 3 hours. By October 17, all operations of seaports in Bohol and Cebu were back to normal.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Effects, Health
Many Bohol residents were left without adequate safe drinking water and sanitary facilities after the quake. Consequently, serious public health issues arose such as cases of diarrhea and water-borne diseases. Worst affected were the municipalities closest to the epicenter, such as Sagbayan, San Isidro, Calape, Tubigon, Clarin and Catigbian.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Effects, Health
There were also threats to public health. Community health centers and hospitals were rendered useless, resulting in the use of makeshift wards outside the affected buildings. Food supply was also disrupted with many markets unable to operate a week after the quake. Furthermore, prolonged periods of aftershocks forced the population to take residence in makeshift shelters, afraid to go inside weakened buildings, and causing psychological trauma.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Effects, Power and water supply
One in every five households in Bohol had electrical power disruption a week after the earthquake hit. In terms of number of barangays, according to the Department of Energy, 91 percent of 602 villages had their power restored. On October 24, Tagbilaran City was the only town in the province where energy was fully restored. By November 3 nearly all electrical power had been restored.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Effects, Power and water supply
By October 20, the water supply in 42 towns of Bohol was restored but the towns of Calape, Cortes, Loon, Maribojoc, and Sagbayan still had a problem with their water supply.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Effects, Power and water supply
As a result of Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), the province of Bohol suffered another round of power outages since the main source of electricity comes from a power plant in Leyte. This power plant, along with transmission lines, were damaged by the storm. Massive brownouts and blackouts lasted for several weeks, even affecting the water supply. Electrical power was restored to all municipalities by November 23.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Effects, Postponement of 2013 barangay elections in Bohol
On October 16, 2013, the provincial government of Bohol asked to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) for the postponement of the barangay elections after the province was heavily devastated by the quake. The following day, Bohol governor Edgar Chatto announced during the Presidential visit that the provincial board will submit a resolution to the COMELEC postponing October 28 elections. The same day COMELEC visited the province and evaluated the safety conditions of polling centers. On October 22 COMELEC officially announced the postponement of elections in Bohol citing safety issues and the integrity of the buildings being used as polling centers. The elections in the province was rescheduled on November 25 and synchronized with the affected barangays of Zamboanga City, which was affected by the armed conflict against the Moro National Liberation Front on September 9 to 28, 2013.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, Government response and aid
States of calamity were issued by Cebu and Bohol provincial governments on October 15. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts, National Historical Commission of the Philippines, and the National Museum have expressed their commitment to rehabilitate the ten heritage churches damaged by the quake. Many of the churches destroyed are iconic and are historical landmarks. One was the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño which is the oldest church in the Philippines. PHIVOLCS continuously monitors the geological activity of the region.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, Government response and aid
The Philippine National Police declared a full alert status and deployed 271 personnel and 27 vehicles in Bohol and Cebu and has continuously monitored the effects of the earthquake. The Armed Forces of the Philippines coordinated with local governments and provincial disaster management units for updates on the situation and for damage assessments. The Department of Health placed the affected region into code red alert status. On October 16, the regional consular office of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Cebu suspended its operations in order to inspect for damage at its offices. All services will resume once public safety is ensured.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, Government response and aid
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III visited the provinces of Cebu and Bohol on October 16, and assessed the damage caused by the quake. Minutes upon his arrival in Tagbilaran, Bohol, a 5.1 magnitude aftershock occurred.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, Government response and aid
The Department of Social Welfare and Development released ₱10 million for the purchase of relief goods for displaced families. The Department is planning to distribute two thousand family packs and 100 rolls of laminated sacks which will be airlifted by the Philippine Air Force's C130. It has allocated ₱98 million (US$2.2 million) in standby funds.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, Government response and aid
The city government of Davao City also pledged at least ₱3 million of cash assistance. Cities of Ormoc and Baybay, Leyte will donate ₱2.1 million.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, Government response and aid
As a post-earthquake effect, several local businesses and tourist resorts had a very difficult time in the months after the earthquake, caused by fear from tourists that such event might occur again. After a year, positive signs of recovery thrived for Bohol Island amid rehabilitation efforts.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, International response and aid
The Spanish government sent messages of sympathy and solidarity to the Philippine government. Spain also cited the damage and destruction of the churches, which they consider as part of their historical heritage during the Spanish colonial period. New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key also sent a letter to President Aquino expressing their heartfelt sympathies to the people affected by the disaster. Canada, through Foreign Minister John Baird, also offered sympathies and stated that his country is ready to help the Philippines. Japan, through ambassador Toshinao Urabe, wrote a letter to the President extending the people's  and government's sympathies to the quake hit victims.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, International response and aid
Japan delivered emergency relief goods (150 tents and 485 plastic sheets) worth approximately $383,000 for the victims, and later decided to extend additional assistance of $3.5 million through the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The government of Taiwan has provided funds worth $100,000. Malaysia donated RM100,000 for the children affected by the disaster. The United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), donated $50,000 worth of non-food relief items and 6,000 hygiene kits.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, International response and aid
The South Korea government donated $300,000 of funds to help rehabilitate the provinces of Bohol and Cebu. On October 21, the German government extended their sympathies to the people of the Philippines affected by the disaster. The German government also pledged ₱13.7 million and will be coursed through German humanitarian organization Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe. On October 25, the Australian Government will provide of ₱124 million funds to the quake hit areas for humanitarian needs. ₱44 million will be funded for family survival kits containing sleeping mats, mosquito nets and water containers direct from the Philippine Red Cross, rice direct from the World Food Programme, and kits for women direct from United Nations Population Fund.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, Aid from organizations
The United Nations' World Food Program has prepositioned a thousand metric tons of rice, 15 metric tons of high energy biscuits and other non-food items to the affected areas in the provinces of Bohol and Cebu. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations' Coordinating Center for Humanitarian Assistance has also delivered relief supplies to Bohol. Philippine Red Cross (PRC) donated relief operations, and deployed volunteers and rescue teams to the depressed areas. Singapore Red Cross (SRC) donated $100 thousand worth of relief goods, and deployed a team of volunteers in the affected areas on October 18.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, Aid from organizations
SRC volunteers also assisted surgeons conducting surgical operations in Tagbilaran City. On October 18, Oxfam International deployed a team of experts in order to assess the health and sanitation conditions in Bohol, and donated 400 water treatment solutions which will be distributed to various health centers of the said province. On October 25, the United Nations called to the international community to raise a $46.8 million of aid to the quake affected areas.


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, Aid from organizations
A 2014 report indicated that Bohol residents impacted by the quake have taken up mushroom farming, for which they are paid in rice, as part of a "Food-For-Work programme implemented in partnership with the Bureau of Fisheries and Agriculture and the Philippine Coconut Authority."


2013 Bohol earthquake, Response, Other charity and fundraising activities
GMA Network's Kapuso Foundation and ABS-CBN's Sagip Kapamilya Foundation aided the victims of the quake by providing relief items such as food and bottled water. A benefit concert called #BangonSugBohol was also held in Cebu. Some private individuals from the least affected Tagbilaran City mobilized and provided aid by distributing relief goods and used clothing. Different local and foreign companies also donated different relief items. Different local religious, civic, and humanitarian groups also conducted relief operations in Bohol.


2013 Bohol local elections
Local elections were held on May 13, 2013 in the Province of Bohol as part of the 2013 Philippine General election. Registered voters elected local positions, which were 386 city and municipal councilors, 48 city and town mayors and vice-mayors, 10 provincial board or Sangguniang Panlalawigan members, one governor and vice-governor, and one representative for each of the three districts of Bohol.


2013 Bohol local elections
The registration ended in October 2012, with registered 775,785 voters, a 45,871 or 6.28% increase from the 729,914 registered voters in 2010. With the use of PCOS machines, the former 4,718 precincts were compressed into 2,473 clustered precincts to accommodate voters in the entire province.


2013 Bohol local elections
At the end of the filing of certificates of candidacy issued by Comelec on October 5, 2012, a total of 1,132 hopefuls had filed certificates of candidacy for 497 elective positions. Based on the official list of provincial Commission on Elections, 881 aspirants ran for councilors, 108 for mayors, 107 for vice mayors, 23 for provincial board members, 4 for governor, 3 for vice governor, and six for congress in three districts.


2013 Bohol local elections, Provincial Election Results
The governor and vice governor with the highest number of votes won the seat. However, they were voted separately, so they could be from different parties when elected.


2013 Bohol local elections, Provincial Election Results, Governor
Parties below were as stated in certificates of candidacies. The total number of voters was 559,983 (72.18% of total registered voters).


2013 Bohol local elections, Provincial Election Results, Vice-Governor
Parties were stated in certificate of candidacies. The total number of voters was 559,983 (72.18% of total registered voters).


2013 Bohol local elections, Provincial Election Results, Sangguniang Panlalawigan
Both the 1st and 2nd Districts of Bohol elected three Sangguniang Panlalawigan or provincial board members. The 3rd District, with highest population, elected four board members. The candidates with the highest number of votes won the seats allocated for each district, with the number of winning candidates per district equal to the number of seats that district sent to the provincial legislature.


2013 Bohol local elections, Provincial Election Results, Sangguniang Panlalawigan, 1st District
Parties were stated in certificate of candidacies. The total number of voters was 192,410.


2013 Bohol local elections, Provincial Election Results, Sangguniang Panlalawigan, 2nd District
Parties were stated in certificate of candidacies. The total number of voters was 196,879.


2013 Bohol local elections, Provincial Election Results, Sangguniang Panlalawigan, 3rd District
Parties were as stated in certificate of candidacies. The total number of voters was 170,694.


2013 Bohol local elections, Congressional election results
Each of Bohol's three legislative districts elected representative to the House of Representatives. The candidate with the highest number of votes won the seat.


2013 Bohol local elections, Congressional election results, 1st District, Congressman
Rene Relampagos was the incumbent. The mayor of Tagbilaran City, Dan Neri Lim, challenged him for the congressional seat. Parties were as stated in certificate of candidacies. The total number of voters was 192,410.


2013 Bohol local elections, Congressional election results, 2nd District, Congressman
Incumbent Erico B. Aumentado died while in office on December 25, 2012. The Nationalist People's Coalition replaced him with a substitute against his perennial rival, former three-term congressman and by then, incumbent Trinidad mayor Roberto Cajes. Forty days after his father's death, Aumentado's youngest son and acting congressman Erico Aristotle filed his certificate of candidacy. Parties below were as stated in certificate of candidacies. The total number of voters was 196,879.


2013 Bohol local elections, Congressional election results, 3rd District, Congressman
Arthur Yap of Loboc was the incumbent. Last term Loboc Mayor Leon Calipusan filed his CONA under the administration ticket. However, on January 9, 2013, Calipusan filed an affidavit of withdrawal, indicating family and health reasons. It made Arthur Yap unopposed for two consecutive elections. Parties were stated in certificate of candidacies. The total number of voters was 170,694.


2013 Bohol local elections, City and Municipal Elections Results
All municipalities of Bohol and Tagbilaran City elected mayors, vice-mayors, and councilors. The mayor and vice mayor with the highest number of votes won the seat. They were voted separately, and therefore could be from different parties when elected. Below is the list of mayoralty and vice-mayoralty candidates of each city and municipalities per district.


2013 Bohol local elections, City and Municipal Elections Results, First District, Tagbilaran City
Parties were stated on certificates of candidacy. The total number voters was 40,548, equivalent to 78.79% of 51,462 registered voters.


2013 Bohol local elections, City and Municipal Elections Results, First District, Antequera
Municipal Councilor Simeon Leo Jadulco ran unopposed for vice mayor under the Liberal Party.


2013 Bohol local elections, City and Municipal Elections Results, First District, Calape
Brothers Sulpicio Yu and Nelson Yu sought re-election as mayor and vice mayor, respectively, under the Liberal Party.


2013 Bohol local elections, City and Municipal Elections Results, First District, Corella
Total number of voters was 4,327, out of 4,898 registered voters, or 88.34%


2013 Bohol local elections, City and Municipal Elections Results, First District, Sikatuna
Incumbent Mayor Jose Ellorimo Jr. ran unopposed under the Liberal Party (LP) ticket.


2013 Bohol local elections, City and Municipal Elections Results, Third District, Alicia
Incumbent Mayor Marilou Ayuban and Vice Mayor Basilio Balahay ran unopposed under the Liberal Party (LP) ticket.


2013 Bohol local elections, City and Municipal Elections Results, Third District, Batuan
Re -electionist and incumbent Vice Mayor Antonino Jumawid ran unopposed under the Liberal Party (LP) ticket.


2013 Bohol local elections, City and Municipal Elections Results, Third District, Lila
Incumbent Mayor Regina Salazar ran unopposed under the Liberal Party (LP) ticket.


2013 Boise State Broncos football team
The 2013 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Broncos were led by eighth year head coach Chris Petersen and played their home games at Bronco Stadium. They were members of the Mountain West Conference in the Mountain Division. They finished the season 8–5, 6–2 in Mountain West play to finish in second place in the West Division. They were invited to the Hawaii Bowl where they were defeated by Oregon State. The 5 losses matched the total of losses that the Broncos had posted in the five previous seasons combined.


2013 Boise State Broncos football team
On December 6, it was announced that head coach Chris Petersen would resign to take the head coaching job at Washington. In eight seasons at Boise State, he posted a record of 92–12, won five conference titles and two BCS games. Assistant head coach Bob Gregory served as Boise State's interim head coach in their bowl game. On December 11, The Broncos hired former offensive coordinator and Arkansas State head coach Bryan Harsin as their permanent head coach.


2013 Boise State Broncos football team, Conference shuffle
Boise State was originally set to join the Big East Conference, along with fellow Mountain West member San Diego State, for football in 2013; however, after the Big East announced a split between its FBS members (which eventually became the American Athletic Conference) and its non-FBS schools (which kept the Big East name), Boise State announced on December 31, 2012 that it would stay in the Mountain West Conference. San Diego State would later announce they would stay in the Mountain West as well, making the Mountain West a 12 team conference. The Mountain West formed divisions for the first time, with Boise State as part of the Mountain Division, and will conduct a conference championship game for the first time.


2013 Boise State Broncos football team, Conference shuffle
As part of the conditions for Boise State to stay in the conference, the Mountain West lifted the ban on the Broncos wearing their all blue uniforms at home during conference games.


2013 Boise State Broncos football team, Game summaries, at Washington
This was the second consecutive meeting between the Broncos and the Huskies as they met at the end of the 2012 season in the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas. The 32-point loss is the worst loss under Chris Petersen. The previous highest margin of defeat was 14, also coming against Washington in 2007, Petersen's second year as head coach. Prior to this game, the Broncos' previous five losses had been by a combined 11 points. It was the Broncos worst loss since a 35-point loss to Georgia to open the 2005 season. This was also the first time the Broncos failed to score a touchdown since a 58–0 loss to Washington State in 1997.


2013 Boise State Broncos football team, Game summaries, Air Force
Quarterback Joe Southwick set a Boise State and Mountain West record for completion percentage completing 27 of 29 passes (93.1%). The Broncos were allowed to wear their all blue uniforms for the first time during a home conference game since joining the Mountain West in 2011.


2013 Boise State Broncos football team, Game summaries, at Utah State
Utah State chose to wear white at home. The win was the Broncos 21st straight win over a team from Utah with the last loss coming in 1997.


2013 Boise State Broncos football team, Game summaries, at BYU
The loss to BYU ended a 21-game winning streak against teams from the state of Utah dating back to a 1997 loss to Utah State. It was also the Broncos first loss in the month of October since a loss to Rice in 2001, a span of 50 wins.


2013 Boise State Broncos football team, Game summaries, at San Diego State
This loss marked the first time that Boise State lost to the same opponent in consecutive years since losing to Washington State in 2000 and 2001.


2013 Bojangles' Southern 500
The 2013 Bojangles' Southern 500, the 64th running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on May 11, 2013, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina, United States. The race was contested over 367 laps on the 1.366–mile (2.198 km) oval, it was the eleventh race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series championship. Matt Kenseth of Joe Gibbs Racing won the race, his third win of the 2013 season, while his teammate Denny Hamlin finished second. Jeff Gordon grabbed his 300th top 5 finish in his 700th Sprint Cup start, while Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top five.


2013 Bojangles' Southern 500
There were five cautions for 25 laps and nine lead changes between four different drivers throughout the course of the race. The result moved Kenseth to the third position in the Drivers' Championship, 59 points behind Jimmie Johnson in first and five ahead of Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in fourth. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, two points ahead of Toyota and 18 ahead of Ford, with 25 races remaining in the season.


2013 Bojangles' Southern 500, Report, Background
Darlington Raceway is a four-turn 1.366 mi (2.198 km) oval. The track's first two turns are banked at twenty-five degrees, while the final two turns are banked two degrees lower at twenty-three degrees. The front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the back stretch is banked at six degrees. Darlington Raceway can seat up to 60,000 people. Jimmie Johnson was the defending race winner after winning the event during the 2012 race.


2013 Bojangles' Southern 500, Report, Background
Before the race, Johnson was leading the Drivers' Championship with 383 points, while Carl Edwards stood in second with 342 points. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. followed in the third with 324, seven ahead of Matt Kenseth in fourth, and eight ahead of Clint Bowyer in fifth. Brad Keselowski, with 314, was in sixth; fifteen points ahead of Kasey Kahne. Eighth-placed Aric Almirola was three points ahead of Paul Menard and eight ahead of Kyle Busch in ninth and tenth. Greg Biffle was eleventh with 280, while Kevin Harvick completed the first twelve positions with 279 points. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 68 points, five points ahead of Toyota. Ford was third after recording only 52 points during the first ten races.


2013 Bojangles' Southern 500, Report, Practice and qualifying
Two practice sessions were held in preparation for the race; both on Friday, May 10, 2013. The first session lasted for 120 minutes, while second session was 45 minutes long. During the first practice session, Menard, for the Richard Childress Racing team, was quickest ahead of Bowyer in second and McMurray in third. Earnhardt, Jr. was scored fourth, and Edwards managed fifth. Kyle Busch, Martin Truex, Jr., Juan Pablo Montoya, Kenseth, and Biffle rounded out the top ten quickest drivers in the session.


2013 Bojangles' Southern 500, Report, Practice and qualifying
Montoya was quickest in the second and final practice session, ahead of Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. in second and Edwards in third. Jeff Burton was fourth quickest, and Kurt Busch took fifth. Biffle, Kenseth, Jeff Gordon, Truex, Jr., and Kyle Busch followed in the top ten.


2013 Bojangles' Southern 500, Report, Practice and qualifying
During qualifying, forty-three cars were entered. Kurt Busch clinched his first pole position of the season, with a record time of 27.032 seconds. After his qualifying run, Kurt Busch commented, "Wow, what an incredible lap. The way the team gave me the confidence right when we first unloaded, the team deserves all the credit. This gives me a great shot to stay ahead of the field and win by two-thousandths of a second this time." He was joined on the front row of the grid by Johnson. Kyle Busch qualified third, Kahne took fourth, and Truex, Jr. started fifth. Denny Hamlin, Kenseth, Gordon, Biffle, and Harvick completed the first ten positions on the grid.


2013 Bolivarian Games
The 2013 Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos), officially the XVII Bolivarian Games, was a major international multi-sport event that was held from November 16–30, 2013, in Trujillo, Peru, with some events held in Lima and Chiclayo. Approximately 4,500 athletes from 11 nations participated in 44 sports. These Games was the third Bolivarian Games that was hosted by Peru. Previously, Peru hosted the 1947–48 Bolivarian Games and the 1997 Bolivarian Games. Since 2011, Trujillo was preparing the sport buildings for the Bolivarian Games.


2013 Bolivarian Games
The 2013 Bolivarian Games was the first one to have athletes from 11 countries, instead of the usual 6 members of the Bolivarian Sports Organization (ODEBO).


2013 Bolivarian Games, Host city election
The Bolivarian Sports Organization (ODEBO) selected initially Panama City as the host for the 17th Bolivarian Games on May 5, 2010. ODEBO selected the city, after both opposing bids from Venezuela and Ecuador were dismissed. Venezuela's bid fell through, due to not getting general support from then Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Ecuador's bid was just not handed in on time, in order to be an official one.


2013 Bolivarian Games, Host city election
On October 20, 2010, ODEBO decided to withdraw Panama City as host,  .ODEBO explained that Panama's Olympic Committee has actually two committees with two co-presidents in conflict, Miguel Vanegas and Miguel Sánchiz, one recognized by Panama's Supreme Court of Justice and the other one recognized by IOC. Ricardo Martinelli, Panama's president, commented: "I'm going to kill both of them... I will publicly ask both of them to hand over their resignations for the good of this country and stop with their petty personal interests.


2013 Bolivarian Games, Host city election
Early 2011, Trujillo began to bid, to replace Panama City, as host of the 2013 Bolivarian Games. ODEBO's Games commission traveled to the Peruvian city to make a visual inspection of its facilities. The review found that Trujillo is capable of hosting the Games and unofficially stated that the city will host the 2013 Bolivarian Games. The official announcement was given on February 7, 2012, in Rio de Janeiro. Trujillo city will house about 4000 athletes from 11 countries in a modern sports complex.


2013 Bolivarian Games, Participating teams
All 6 nations of ODEBO competed in these Games. For the first time in Games' history, five non-ODEBO teams was given permission to participate as well. Number in parentheses represents number of athletes for each team.


2013 Bolivarian Games, Sports
For the 2013 Bolivarian Games, 561 events in 44 sports was contested here. These Games was the first time that rugby was played at the Bolivarian Games. Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.


2013 Bolivian special municipal elections
The 2013 Bolivian special municipal elections were held on 13 January 2013 in the municipalities of Punata (in Cochabamba Department) and Bermejo (in Tarija Department. Newly elected mayors will receive their credentials from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, after which they may be sworn in.


2013 Bomet local elections
Local elections were held in Bomet County on 4 March 2013 to elect a Governor and County Representatives. Under the new constitution, which was passed in a 2010 referendum, the 2013 general elections were the first in which Governors and members of the County Assemblies for the newly created counties were elected. They will also be the first general elections run by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) which has released the official list of candidates.


2013 Bomet local elections, Prospective candidates
The following are some of the candidates who have made public their intentions to run:


2013 Bonnaroo Music Festival
The 2013 Bonnaroo Music Festival was held June 13–16, 2013 in Manchester, Tennessee and marked the 12th time the festival has been held since its inception in 2002.


2013 Boodles Challenge
The 2013 Boodles Challenge was an exhibition tennis tournament held before Wimbledon to serve as a warm-up to players. Taking place from 18 to 22 June 2013 at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire, it was the 12th edition of the Boodles Challenge. Viktor Troicki won the title, defeating Robin Haase 7-5, 6-4 in a thrilling encounter. Novak Djokovic and Grigor Dimitrov delighted the crowd with a strip-tease during their exhibition match on the third day.


2013 Borazjan earthquake
The 2013 Dashtestan earthquake struck near the city of Borazjan (the capital of Dashtestan County, Bushehr Province) in southern Iran on November 28 at a depth of 16.4 km (10.2 mi). The shock had a moment magnitude of 5.6 on the Richter scale and a maximum perceived intensity of VII (Very strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The earthquake killed at least 7 people and another 45 were injured.


2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final
The 2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final was the 18th final of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup, the highest football cup competition in Bosnia.


2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final
The date of both 2013 Final matches, as in all the recent years, was set so that it avoids clashes with Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina fixtures. Both matches took place on Tuesday, between two rounds of the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.


2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final
The current holders, Željezničar were not able to defend their title with Široki Brijeg bringing a trophy home after six years of drought after they won 5–4 on penalties (both legs finished 1–1).


2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final, Route to the Final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first.


2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final, Pre-match
This final marked the ninth appearance in final of Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup for Željezničar and tenth final in domestic cups, since they were once in final of Yugoslav Cup. They had won the cup five times (in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2011 and 2012) and have been beaten in 4 occasions (in 1981, 1997, 2002 and 2010). On the other side, this was the fifth final for Široki Brijeg and they won it once (in 2007), with three finals lost (in 2005, 2006 and 2012). This was the second consecutive time these two clubs met each other in the final of this competition, while it was the sixth overall encounter in this competition (they met each other before once in final, three times in semi-finals and once in quarter-finals).


2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final, Pre-match
On 9 April 2013, a draw to decide who will be the first host was held with Željezničar hosting the first leg on 30 April at 18:00 CEST and Široki Brijeg the rematch two weeks later on 14 May at 19:00 CEST, with both matches aired on BHT1.


2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final, Pre-match
Unlike the two last finals, in which Željezničar also played, this time the ticket price wasn't raised but rather remained the same as the prices for the regular tickets for the league matches, which were €2.50 for the south stand (the stand were The Maniacs are), €4 for the north stand and €5 for the west stand.


2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final, Pre-match
The kick-off for the second leg was set at 19:00 CEST, on Tuesday, 14 May. Before the match, Željezničar was in a more-than-four-year unbeaten streak in national cup, with the last lost match dating to 24 September 2008 against Zvijezda in the first round of the 2008–09 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup. Since then, they have played 35 matches in the national cup, winning in 22 of those matches and drawing 13, with a goal difference of 61 to 10. They won three of the last four national cups, since they lost the final in 2009–10 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup to Borac on an aggregate score of 3:3 after two draw matches. Borac won the cup because of more scored away goals.


2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final, Matches, Report for the first leg, Details for the first leg
Assistant referees:Sreten Udovičić (Prijedor)Senad Ibrišimbegović (Travnik)Fourth official:Edin Jakupović (Bihać)Additional assistant referees:Vladimir Bjelica (I. Sarajevo)Muamer Bureković (Zenica)


2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup Final, Matches, Report for the second leg, Details for the second leg
Assistant referees:Adnan Alispahić (Zenica)Željko Marić (Doboj)Fourth official:Tomislav Čuić (Duvno)Additional assistant referees:Darko Obradović (Stolac)Goran Parađik (Ljubuški)


2013 Boston Breakers season
The 2013 Boston Breakers season, is the club's eighth overall year of existence, fourth consecutive year, and first year as a member of the National Women's Soccer League.


2013 Boston Breakers season, Background
The foundation of the league was announced on November 21, 2012, with Boston selected as a host for one of the eight teams.


2013 Boston Breakers season, Background
Lisa Cole was announced as the head coach on December 7, 2012 returning after leading the Breakers during a successful run in the Women's Premier Soccer League Elite the previous year.


2013 Boston Breakers season, Club, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Boston Breakers season, Standings, Results summary
Last updated: August 17, 2013Source:Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2013 Boston Breakers season, Squad statistics
Key to positions: FW – Forward, MF – Midfielder, DF – Defender, GK – Goalkeeper


2013 Boston Breakers season, Squad statistics
Note: jersey numbers were reassigned during the season, when a player left and another joined


2013 Boston Cannons season
The 2013 Boston Cannons season was the 13th season for the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse. The Cannons tried to build on their 9–5 playoff season in 2012 after winning their first Steinfeld Cup in 2011.


2013 Boston City Council election
Boston City Council elections were held on November 5, 2013. Twelve seats (eight district representatives and four at-large members) were contested in the general election, as the incumbent in district 3 was unopposed. Eight seats (the four at-large members, and districts 1, 4, 5, and 8) had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 24, 2013.


2013 Boston City Council election, At-large
Councillors Ayanna Pressley and Stephen J. Murphy were re-elected, while the seats formerly held by John R. Connolly and Felix G. Arroyo were won by Michael F. Flaherty and Michelle Wu. Connolly and Arroyo did not seek re-election, as they ran for Mayor of Boston; Arroyo was eliminated in the preliminary election, while Connolly was defeated by Marty Walsh in the general election.


2013 Boston City Council election, District 5
The seat formerly held by Robert Consalvo was won by Timothy McCarthy. Consalvo did not seek re-election, as he was running for Mayor of Boston.


2013 Boston City Council election, District 8
The seat formerly held by Michael P. Ross was won by Josh Zakim. Ross did not seek re-election, as he was running for Mayor of Boston.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team
The 2013 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Steve Addazio and played their home games at Alumni Stadium. They finished the season 7–6 overall and 4–4 in ACC play to tie for third place in the Atlantic Division. They were invited to the AdvoCare V100 Bowl, where they were defeated by Arizona, 42–19.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, Villanova
In Steve Addazio's first game as head coach and season opener for the Eagles, Boston College took on their historical foe, the Villanova Wildcats for the first time since 1980. Ranked #5 in the FCS polls, Villanova had a strong potential to upset an FBS team coming off a trying 2–10 year. The upset looked imminent as the Wildcats led 14–7 at halftime, the first score of which came on a spectacular 4th down field goal fake on the first drive of the game. However, the Eagles came out of the half energized and turned the game around to win 24–14.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest
In the ACC opener for both teams, the Eagles took on the Demon Deacons on ESPN2 College Football Friday Primetime. BC's defense stifled the Deacons' option attack all game, while churning out scores on a 204-yard performance by senior running back Andre Williams, as the Eagles went 2–0 for the first time since 2010, and matched their win total from the previous year.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ USC
The Eagles first loss of the season came at USC, as the Trojans dominated both sides of the ball in only the teams' fourth ever meeting. USC is 4–0 in games against Boston College. Coming into the game, BC had the potential to upset USC, who was coming off a 10–7 loss at Washington State, along with quarterback drama and dysfunctional leadership under head coach Lane Kiffin (who was fired later in the month). However, the hostile environment proved too much for Boston College and could not come up with an upset, let alone a fighting chance at winning the game, as they lost 35–7.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, Florida State
Florida State visited the Heights ranked eighth in the country, but Boston College was determined to prove they were a different team than last year's 2–10 squad. The Eagles came out hot, taking a 17–3 lead before FSU mounted a late first half-comeback. The Seminoles finished the half with a crowd-stunning last second Hail Mary pass to take a 24–17 lead into the locker room.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, Florida State
The second half was a back and forth affair, with the Eagles' offense desperately trying to catch up in vain, as ultimately FSU's offense proved mightier, and the Seminoles escaped Chestnut Hill with a 48–34 victory. This victory proved pivotal for FSU, as they finished the season undefeated and ranked #1 in the national polls, and will be playing in the BCS National Championship game. In fact, FSU's game against Boston College was the last time in the 2013 season they trailed the other team during a game, and the last time they won a game with less than a 15-point victory margin.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, Army
The Eagles bounced back from consecutive losses to strong teams with a solid 48–27 win over Army. Boston College did not take the Black Knights lightly, however, as they took revenge for a 34–31 comeback win by Army in the previous year at West Point. Running back Andre Williams ran for 263 yards and 5 touchdowns, 1 yard short of the school's single-game record, and tied the record for most rushing scores in a game.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ Clemson
In another meeting against a top-10 conference foe, Boston College took the trip to Death Valley to take on the rival #3 Tigers. The Eagles were energized and effective, forcing turnovers and holding Clemson to only a field goal in the first half, and then took a 14–10 into the fourth quarter. However, even with the huge road upset within grasp, BC's defense could not hold off the Tigers, and lost the game 24–14.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ North Carolina
After nearly upsetting the #3 Tigers, Boston College took the trip to Chapel Hill with hopes off "going 1–0" to start the second half of the season, against an uncharacteristically underachieving 1–5 UNC team. However, the Tar Heels had different hopes, as they were in danger of becoming bowl-ineligible. The Eagles played poorly as they lost their 9th consecutive road game, 34–10. The win for the Tar Heels started a 6-game winning streak to turn around their 1–5 season into a 6–6 bowl eligible one.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech
After nearly upsetting two top-10 teams earlier in the season, the Eagles finally managed one (although not a top-10 opponent) against the Hokies in an exciting back and forth 34–27 victory. In their characteristically strong home-field performance, the Eagles defense managed four turnovers against a 6–2 Virginia Tech team, who was coming off a disheartening 13–10 home loss against Duke. The win was only their 7th all time in 22 meetings against the Hokies and stopped a 5-game winning streak by them, which includes two ACC-Championship games. The win also got the Eagles back to .500 and doubled their win total from the previous season, while giving them a strong chance to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2010.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ New Mexico State
In the team's first-ever meeting, the Eagles and Aggies had a surprisingly closer game than anticipated. New Mexico State, one of the worst-ranked teams in all of the FBS and holding the dead-last rushing defense in the league, was going up against a revived and energized Eagles team coming off an upset victory against Virginia Tech and having the nation's second-leading rusher in Andre Williams. The game was supposed to be a pushover for the Eagles, but NMSU proved otherwise. Aggies Head coach Doug Martin was the Eagles' offensive coordinator in 2012, and used his knowledge of BC's personnel effectively.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ New Mexico State
The game was a back-and-forth affair, with both defenses struggling to keep their opposing offense from making big plays and scoring. However, as the game wore on and the depth of the teams became prominent, BC pulled away in the 4th off of two huge Andre Williams rushes for touchdowns, one 80-yard run, his season high, and another 47-yard to pull two scores away. Despite the closeness of the game, both teams put up huge numbers offensively.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ New Mexico State
Andre Williams set a new single-game school record with 295 yards rushing and 2 touchdowns, after nearly breaking the record earlier in the year against Army. Chase Rettig threw for 230 yards and 3 touchdowns. Alex Amidon, who also set a new school record for career yards received, caught 88 yards and 1 touchdown. True freshman Myles Willis returned a 98-yard kickoff for a touchdown in the 4th quarter. On the Aggies side, quarterback Andrew McDonald threw 384 yards with 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, while wide receiver Austin Franklin caught 145 yards and 2 touchdowns.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ New Mexico State
The win ended a 9-game losing streak on the road for the Eagles, their first road win since 2010, while handing the Aggies their 9th loss of their season. BC looks to win their third straight next week against struggling North Carolina State at home, and become bowl eligible for the first time since 2010.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, NC State
On senior day, BC's final home game of the season, the Eagles beat NC State 38–21 and became bowl-eligible for the first time since 2010 due to a record-setting performance by the nation's leading rusher and Doak Walker candidate Andre Williams. After breaking the single-game rushing record the previous week at New Mexico State, Williams broke his own record by rushing for 339 yards on 42 carries, scoring 2 touchdowns. The single-game performance is also the ACC's single-game rushing record, breaking John Leach of Wake Forest's record of 329 yards in 1993.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, NC State
339 yards was also the highest single-game performance by any FBS running back during the season. Williams also surpassed Mike Cloud's single-season BC record of 1,726 yards and put himself 385 yards shorts of BC's career rushing record owned by Montel Harris' 3,757 yards. Kicker Nate Freese also set a record, becoming the school's all-time leading scorer, with 299 points. The win tripled the previous season's win total and guaranteed at least a .500 record for the first time since 2010. After the game ended, the students and alumni rushed the field to celebrate with the team. The Boston Red Sox's 2013 World Series trophy was on display during the game as it toured various professional and collegiate teams in the Boston area.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ Maryland
The Eagles won their fourth consecutive victory and second road victory of the season the week after both BC and Maryland became bowl-eligible. It was an exciting back and forth affair, as Heisman candidate Andre Williams and the Eagles battled back every time the Terrapins pulled away. After Maryland took a 24–13 lead in the 4th quarter, Andre Williams ran for a 72-yard touchdown on the first play of the following drive to pull within 4.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ Maryland
On the play, he passed 2,000 yards rushing for the season, becoming only the 16th player in NCAA history to pass the 2,000 mark, finishing the game 12th on the list for most rushing yards in a season. The Eagles' next drive resulted in Rettig throwing a 74-yard play action touchdown pass to Alex Amidon to take the 26–24 lead. However, on the PAT attempt, Nate Freese's kick was blocked and was recovered by Maryland while the ball was still live, and returned for a 2-point conversion to tie the game at 26.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ Maryland
The blocked extra point was the first missed PAT or Field Goal of the season for Freese. With around 5:00 minutes remaining, Maryland attempted to drive down the field and take the lead back but was stopped and forced to punt, giving BC the ball at their 20 and a chance to win with less than 1:30 to play. A 36-yard run by Andre Williams put the Eagles within field goal range as head coach Steve Addazio elected to run the clock down and take a chance with Freese for the game winner.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ Maryland
From 52 yards away, Freese lined up to kick and win the game, but missed wide left. However, Maryland head coach Randy Edsall called a timeout before the kick to ice Freese, which none of the players heard. Freese was granted another chance, and didn't miss again. BC won the game 29–26. This was the final meeting between the teams in ACC conference play, as Maryland leaves for the Big Ten conference next season. Andre Williams continued his torrid pace, rushing for 263 yards and two scores, maintaining his NCAA lead in rushing yards and yards per game, all while continuing to gain support for Heisman candidacy.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ Syracuse
In their final regular season game of the 2013 season, the Eagles fell in a closely fought battle with former Big East rival Syracuse. The Eagles took a 7–0 lead in the 1st on a 24-yard touchdown run by Heisman candidate Andre Williams, but let up 21 straight points in the 2nd quarter before answering with a touchdown in the final minute before going to the locker room. The Eagles got the ball to start the 2nd half but Williams left early in the opening drive with an injury to his right shoulder and did not return to the game.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ Syracuse
True Freshman Myles Willis took over Williams' place and helped BC fight back and take a 28–24 lead in the 4th. Syracuse managed to kick a field goal to pull within a point but threw an interception on their next drive. The Eagles could only manage a field goal to push their lead back to four and gave Syracuse the ball with 2:08 with no timeouts.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, @ Syracuse
The Orange drove 75 yards down the field in 2:01 and scored a touchdown with 0:06 left on the clock to seal the game, winning their 6th of the season and becoming the 11th bowl-eligible team in the ACC. Williams' injury and the loss effectively ended his chances at winning the Heisman trophy, but he was nonetheless named one of six finalists and finished 4th in the voting. For his performance, Williams was awarded the 2013 Doak Walker Award and was named a unanimous All-American. The Eagles finished the regular season at 7–5 and 4–4 in ACC play, a remarkable turnaround from the 2–10 performance in 2012. The Eagles will play in their 23rd bowl game on December 31, 2013, in the 2013 AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl against the Arizona Wildcats.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, Arizona
The Eagles final game of the season came against the Arizona Wildcats in the 2013 AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl in Shreveport, LA. The game started close, as both teams traded turnovers on their opening drives. The score was 7–6 before Arizona scored 35 unanswered points as the BC defense could not prevent Ka'Deem Carey and the Arizona offense from scoring while the Eagles struggled to gain any offense of their own.


2013 Boston College Eagles football team, Game summaries, Arizona
Andre Williams was kept in check with only 75 yards and 1 touchdown rushing on the day, but he finished the season with 2,177 yards, good for 5th most all-time in the NCAA. The Eagles finished the season 7–6 (4–4 ACC), poised to continue their improvement next season with a ripe group of incoming freshman and the leadership of Coach Steve Addazio.


2013 Boston Marathon
The 2013 Boston Marathon was the 117th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which took place on April 15, 2013. Organized by the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A. ), it hosted the second of the World Marathon Majors to be held in 2013 with over 23,000 runners participating. Lelisa Desisa won the men's race with a time of 2:10:22, and Rita Jeptoo won the women's with a time of 2:26:25. Hiroyuki Yamamoto won the men's wheelchair race in 1:25:32 and Tatyana McFadden won the women's in 1:45:25.


2013 Boston Marathon
The event was disrupted by a terrorist attack in which two consecutive explosions on the sidewalk, near the finish line, killed three spectators and injured 264 other people. The competition became suspended and many runners were unable to participate in the remainder of the competition. The attack received widespread international media attention.


2013 Boston Marathon, Course
The marathon distance is officially 42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi) long as sanctioned by World Athletics (IAAF). The Boston Marathon course has been the same since the inaugural race in 1897. The start is in the town of Hopkinton and the first 6 miles (9.7 km) are downhill through Ashland and into the city of Framingham. Leaving Framingham, the runners enter the town of Natick, before passing through the 'Scream Tunnel' at mile 12.


2013 Boston Marathon, Course
This area is filled with a 'tunnel' of young women from the nearby Wellesley College who request kisses from runners, a tradition that has been in place for more than 100 years. At mile 15, there is a large downhill section, followed by a 0.75-mile (1.21 km) climb at mile 16 crossing the Yankee Division Highway. The runners take a right turn onto Commonwealth Avenue in Newton before starting the first of the four 'Newton Hills'.


2013 Boston Marathon, Course
The first hill is a steep 1,200-yard (1,100 m) climb, the second about 0.25 miles (0.40 km), the third a steep 800 yards (730 m) before the runners start the infamous 'Heartbreak Hill' at just after mile 20. At half a mile long and with a 3.3% percent incline, it is not especially difficult, but due to the hill being 20 miles (32 km) into the race, it is still feared as the runners' legs are usually tired at this point. The course is mostly downhill to the end, and passes through Boston College before entering Cleveland Circle then Kenmore Square where there are many spectators. The final mile has a slight incline, before it flattens off to finish on Boylston Street.