2014 Rugby Championship, Summary
Argentina trailed by seven points, the value of a converted try, when they had a scrum deep within Wallabies' territory, but Australia were awarded a free-kick after the Pumas' scrum-half fed the ball too early and the game ended. In the third week the Springboks played Australia in Perth, where the Wallabies won 24–23. The Wallbies had trailed 23–14, but scored ten unanswered points after Springbok wing Bryan Habana, who was playing in his 100th test match, was yellow carded for a high tackle. The following week South Africa played the All Blacks in Wellington. The match was won 14–10 by New Zealand, but only after they resisted repeated South African attacks on their try-line late in the game. The win was the 36th consecutive victory for the All Blacks in New Zealand – a record stretching back to 2009.


2014 Rugby Championship, Summary
The last two weekends of matches were played in South Africa and Argentina. First up the Wallabies faced the Springboks in Cape Town, where South Africa won 28–10. The victory came after a ten-minute period at the end of the match where the Springboks scored three-tries. The same weekend Argentina faced the All Blacks in La Plata. For the New Zealanders the match was overshadowed by the omission of Aaron Cruden, who had missed the flight to Argentina, and was subsequently dropped from the squad for the last two weeks of the Championship. The All Blacks won 34–13, and with the bonus-point win took an unassailable lead in the Championship – giving them their third Rugby Championship, and 13th overall since the inception of the Tri-Nations Championship in 1996.


2014 Rugby Championship, Summary
Despite New Zealand having secured the Championship title a week earlier, the final week of matches proved historic. The first match was the Springboks hosting the All Blacks at Ellis Park in Johannesburg. All Blacks' captain Richie McCaw played his 134th match for the side, surpassing the national record held by Colin Meads. However the New Zealanders 22-match unbeaten run (going back to December 2012) was ended after a 55 metres (180 ft) penalty kicked by South African Patrick Lambie in the 78th minute gave his side a 27–25 win.


2014 Rugby Championship, Summary
The last match of the tournament was between Argentina and Australia at Mendoza. The test was won 21–17 by the Pumas – their first win in the Rugby Championship since joining the competition in 2012. Australia led 14–0 within the first 15 minutes after scoring two early tries, however Argentina slowly accumulated points to overhaul their opponents.


2014 Rugby Championship, Sponsorship
The 2014 Rugby Championship was also known, for sponsorship reasons, as The Castle Lager Rugby Championship in South Africa, The Investec Rugby Championship in New Zealand, The Castrol Edge Rugby Championship in Australia and The Personal Rugby Championship in Argentina.


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 1
Touch judges:Romain Poite (France)Stuart Berry (South Africa)Television match official:Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 1
Touch judges:Steve Walsh (Australia)Marius Mitrea (Italy)Television match official:Simon McDowell (Ireland)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 2
Touch judges:Jaco Peyper (South Africa)Stuart Berry (South Africa)Television match official:Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 2
Touch judges:John Lacey (Ireland)Marius Mitrea (Italy)Television match official:Vinny Munro (New Zealand)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 3
Touch judges:Jérôme Garcès (France)Rohan Hoffmann (Australia)Television match official:Peter Marshall (Australia)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 3
Touch judges:Glen Jackson (New Zealand)Mike Fraser (New Zealand)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 4
Touch judges:Pascal Gaüzère (France)Rohan Hoffmann (Australia)Television match official:Peter Marshall (Australia)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 4
Touch judges:George Clancy (Ireland)Mike Fraser (New Zealand)Television match official:Ben Skeen (New Zealand)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 5
Touch judges:Wayne Barnes (England)Mathieu Raynal (France)Television match official:Graham Hughes (England)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 5
Touch judges:Jérôme Garcès (France)Leighton Hodges (Wales)Television match official:Deon van Blommestein (South Africa)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 6
Touch judges:Pascal Gauzère (France)JP Doyle (RFU)Television match official:Graham Hughes (RFU)


2014 Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 6
Touch judges:Craig Joubert (South Africa)Leighton Hodges (Wales)Television match official:Deon van Blommestein (South Africa)


2014 Rugby Championship, Warm-up matches
On 25 July and 2 August, Argentina played two uncapped matches against French Top 14 side Grenoble in preparation for the tournament. This was the third year in which Argentina had played two warm-up matches pre Rugby Championship; New South Wales Waratahs Barbarians in 2013 and Stade Français in 2012.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Summary
Note: Ages, caps and domestic side are of 16 August 2014 – the starting date of the tournament.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina
Argentina 30-man squad for the Championship was announced on 23 June. In addition to the 30-man squad, a further 9 players has been invited to train with the squad and will act as stand-by players should a call up be necessary. Those players are: Hookers Julián Montoya (Newman) and Santiago Iglesias (Uni. Tucumán), Lock Guido Petti Pagadizábal (San Isidro), Number 8 Benjamín Macome, Scrum-half Felipe Ezcurra (Hindú), Fly-half Patricio Fernández (Jockey Club), Centres Matías Moroni (CUBA) and Javier Rojas (Uni. Tucumán) and Winger Ramiro Moyano (Lince R.C.)


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina
On 15 July, Marcos Ayerza was added to the squad to provide further options in the front row.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina
On 10 September, Benjamín Macome was promoted to the main squad as cover for Tomás Lavanini, who was unable to play in the fourth round.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Argentina
Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia
Australia 32-man squad for the Championship was announced on 23 July.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia
Although Henry Speight has been named in the squad, he is not eligible to play for the Wallabies until September 11, after round three of the Championship.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia
On 30 July, Peter Betham was called up to the squad as cover for Henry Speight, who was ruled out with a hamstring injury.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia
On 5 August, Tolu Latu and Laurie Weeks were called up to the squad as cover for Tatafu Polota-Nau, who was ruled out of the opening match with a ligament injury, and Scott Sio who was ruled out with an ankle injury.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia
On 10 August, Tom English and Paddy Ryan were called up to the squad to cover Joe Tomane and Laurie Weeks who both suffered hamstring injuries in training, thus being ruled out of the start of the Championship.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia
On 11 August, Saia Fainga'a was called up to the squad to replace Tolu Latu who was withdrawn from the squad due to a broken arm.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia
On 27 August, Kyle Godwin was called up to the squad to replace Pat McCabe who was withdrawn from the squad due to a retirement enforced injury.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia
On 4 September, Josh Mann-Rea was called up to the squad as cover for Saia Fainga'a, who potentially would have to leave the squad for the birth of his child during the week leading up to Round 3. Although Mann-Rea remained in the squad for Round's 5 and 6 with Polota-Nau withdrawing from the squad due to injury.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia
On 7 September, Will Genia and Benn Robinson was added to the squad as training cover for their respective positions. Although they remained in the squad for Round's 5 and 6 as a full squad member.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, Australia
On 8 September, Jake Schatz was added to the squad as cover for Wycliff Palu who was ruled out of Round 4.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand
New Zealand 31-man squad for the Championship was announced on 28 July.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand
On 6 August, Colin Slade was added to the squad as cover for Dan Carter, who will miss the opening two matches of the Championship.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand
Joe Moody was also named in the squad as an injury replacement for Tony Woodcock who was initially meant to miss the start of the Championship. However, on 8 August he was ruled out of the whole Championship with Moody replacing Woodcock fully in the squad. Jeremy Thrush was also added to the squad on 8 August, to cover Dominic Bird who will miss the opening two matches due to injury.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand
On 15 August, Ryan Crotty was added to the squad to cover Conrad Smith who returned to New Zealand pre-round 1 due to the birth of his child.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand
On 16 September, Nathan Harris was added to the squad for Round's 5 and 6 as cover in his position.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, New Zealand
On 22 September, Tom Taylor was added to the squad to replace Aaron Cruden who was withdrawn from the squad as a disciplinary action.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa
South Africa 30-man squad for the Championship was announced on 2 August.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa
On 6 August, Juan Smith was called up to the squad to cover Victor Matfield who has been ruled out of the opening match of the championship.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa
On 16 August, Warren Whiteley was added to the squad as cover for Willem Alberts, who was ruled out of Round 2 with a hamstring injury.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa
On 25 August, Marcel van der Merwe was added to the squad to replace Frans Malherbe who was withdrawn from the squad prior to Round 3 due to an injury.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa
On 14 September, JP Pietersen was added to the squad for the final two matches of the Championship.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa
On 17 September, Schalk Burger was added to the squad to replace Francois Louw who withdrew from the squad for Round's 5 and 6 due to injury.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa
Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.


2014 Rugby Championship, Squads, South Africa
‡ denotes players who are contracted to the South African Rugby Union.


2014 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series
2014 Sevens Grand Prix Series is the 13th round of the Sevens Grand Prix Series (formerly known as the European Sevens Championship) for rugby sevens organised by the FIRA – Association of European Rugby.


2014 Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series, Series, Grand Prix standings
Note: England finishes above Russia due to tiebreaker of highest point difference.


2014 Rugby Europe Sevens – Division A
2014 European Sevens Championship Division A is a lower division European Championships, that was held in Kaunas, Lithuania between 14 June and 15 June 2014. The winner of the division will get promoted to elite championships.


2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Grand Prix Series
2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Grand Prix Series was the top level of international women's rugby sevens competitions organised by Rugby Europe during 2014. The series featured two tournaments, one hosted in Moscow and one hosted in Brive-la-Gaillarde. England won the Moscow tournament while France won the Brive tournament. Russia won the overall championship after finishing as runners-up in both tournaments.


2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Under 18 Championship
The 2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Under 18 Championship was hosted in  Enköping, Sweden.


2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens – Division A
The 2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens – Division A was the second level of international women's rugby sevens competitions organised by Rugby Europe for 2014. The competition featured just one tournament, played in Bergen. Scotland won the tournament, and along with runner-up Ukraine, were promoted to the 2015 Grand Prix series.


2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens – Division B
2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Division B is a lowest division European Championships, that will be held in Vingis Park Rugby Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania.


2014 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens – Division B
12 Teams had to compete in the championships: Lithuania, Austria, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Andorra, Turkey, Malta, Latvia, Serbia, Israel, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Eventually Andorra and Bosnia & Herzegovina withdrew, so they were replaced by Slovenia and Bulgaria.


2014 Rugby League European Championship C
The competition this year saw 3 teams taking part with the Czech Republic being joined by Malta and Greece. The winners were Greece.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations
The 2014 Rugby League Four Nations tournament was the fourth staging of the Rugby League Four Nations tournament played in Australia and New Zealand over three weeks from Saturday, 25 October to Saturday, 15 November 2014. The series was contested by regular participants Australia, England and New Zealand, joined by Samoa, having won their Pacific qualifier against Fiji. New Zealand won the tournament, defeating Australia in the final at Wellington's Westpac Stadium on Saturday 15 November.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations, History
The 2014 tournament is the first Four Nations series to be scheduled following the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, with the venues rotating between Europe and the South Pacific.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations, History
In addition to automatic inclusions Australia, England and New Zealand, Pacific nations Fiji and Samoa met in a mid-season test match at the Penrith Stadium in western Sydney to determine the fourth entrant in the tournament. Samoa won an entertaining match 32-16 in front of 9,063 fans.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations, History
The 34,500 capacity Westpac Stadium in Wellington will play host to the first Four Nations Final played in New Zealand. The last time the final of the tournament was held in New Zealand was at the Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland when the tournament was known as the Tri-Nations in its inaugural year, 1999.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations, Venues
The games were played at the following venues in Australia and New Zealand. The tournament final was played in Wellington.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations, Results, Final
Score Progression: 11th: Australia 6 - 0 (Jennings Try, Smith Goal) 23rd : Even 6 - 6 (Nightingale Try, Johnson Goal) 29th: New Zealand 8 - 6 (Johnson Penalty Goal) 35th: New Zealand 14 - 6 (Vatuvei Try, Johnson Goal) 42nd: New Zealand 14 - 12 (Mata'utia Try, Smith Goal) 58th: New Zealand 18 - 12 (Johnson Try) 63rd: New Zealand 22 - 12 (Vatuvei Try) 76th: New Zealand 22 - 18 (Hunt Try, Smith Goal)


2014 Rugby League Four Nations, Broadcasting rights
In the United Kingdom, Premier Sports televised all the matches live while BBC Two televised England's round robin matches and the final live. BBC One televised highlights of matchday one while BBC Two televised highlights of matchday two while BBC One televised highlights of England's final round robin match against New Zealand while highlights of matchday three was televised on BBC Two in England and England HD at 10:00pm and in Northern Ireland at 10:30pm and in Scotland 11:00pm and in Wales at 11:30pm. BBC One televised highlights of the final.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations squads, Squads, Australia
* Replaced Jarryd Hayne on October 15 after his withdrawal.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations squads, Squads, New Zealand
1 Replaced Dallin Watene-Zelezniak who withdrew due to injury on October 22.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations squads, Squads, New Zealand
2 Replaced Sam Moa who withdrew due to family reasons on October 17.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations squads, Squads, Samoa
1 Added to the squad on October 15 taking their squad number to 24.


2014 Rugby League Four Nations squads, Squads, Samoa
2 Replaced Suaia Matagi on October 11 as he had also been named in the New Zealand squad and opted to play for them.


2014 Runnymede Borough Council election
The 2014 Runnymede Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Runnymede Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2014 RusVelo season
The 2014 season for the RusVelo cycling team began in February at the Volta ao Algarve. The team participated in UCI Continental Circuits and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation.


2014 Rushmoor Borough Council election
The 2014 Rushmoor Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Rushmoor Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections and the elections for the European Parliament.


2014 Rushmoor Borough Council election
Labour gained one seat from the Conservatives, while UKIP regained a seat whose previous incumbent had defected to Labour.


2014 Russell Athletic Bowl
The 2014 Russell Athletic Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 29, 2014, at Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium in Orlando, Florida. This was the 25th Russell Athletic Bowl. It was one of the 2014–15 NCAA football bowl games that conclude the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was sponsored by the Russell Athletic uniform company.


2014 Russell Athletic Bowl
The game featured the Clemson Tigers and the Oklahoma Sooners. Clemson was the runner-up in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Oklahoma placed in a three-way tie for fourth in the Big 12 Conference.


2014 Russell Athletic Bowl
This was the fourth overall meeting between these two teams, with Oklahoma leading the series 2–1 going into the game. The previous time these two teams met was in the 1989 Citrus Bowl, when Clemson won 13–6.


2014 Russia Open Grand Prix
The 2014 Russia Open Grand Prix was the thirteenth grand prix gold and grand prix tournament of the 2014 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament was held in Sports Hall Olympic, Vladivostok, Russia July 22 until July 27, 2014 and had a total purse of US$50,000.


2014 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 2014 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships will be held in Penza, Russia from April 3 to April 6 for WAG and April 10 to April 13 for MAG.


2014 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Results, Senior All-Around
Senior Team members Viktoria Kuzmina and Evgenia Shelgunova didn't attend. Senior Reserve members Evgenia Zhukova, Evgenia Korolkova, Kristina Levshina and Anastasia Marchuk didn't attend.


2014 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Results, Junior Team Final
Junior Team members Anastasia Ilyankova, Natalia Kapitonova and Alena Chernova didn't attend. Junior Reserve members Raisa Batyrova, Viktoria Bykova and Maria Iontef didn't attend.


2014 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, European Championships team selections
The team to the 2014 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships was announced on April 2014.


2014 Russian Cup
The 2014 Russian Cup was held in Penza, Russia from 27-31 August 2014.


2014 Russian Cup, World Championships team selections
The team to the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was announced on 31 August 2014.


2014 Russian Cup Final
The 2014 Russian Cup Final decided the winner of the 2013–14 Russian Cup, the 22nd season of Russia's main football cup. It was played on 8 May 2014 at the Anzhi Arena in Kaspiysk, between Russian Premier League sides Krasnodar and Rostov.


2014 Russian Cup Final
Afer drawing the game 0–0 through added extra time, Rostov won 6–5 in a dramatic penalty shoot-out that saw both sides miss penalty kicks.


2014 Russian Cup Final
The shoot-out win brought relief for Rostov, winning their first major trophy having lost the 2003 Russian Cup final to FC Spartak Moscow 0–1.


2014 Russian Cup Final
As winners, FC Rostov qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Europa League and also faced CSKA Moscow, champions of the 2013–14 Russian Premier League, in the Russian Super Cup on 26 July 2014.


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships
The 2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по фигурному катанию на коньках 2014) was held from 24–27 December 2013 in Sochi. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The results were among the criteria used to select Russia's teams sent to the 2014 Winter Olympics, the 2014 World Championships, and the 2014 European Championships.


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Senior Championships
The senior Championships were held in Sochi for the second year in a row. Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov withdrew before the event due to injury and were replaced by alternates Anastasia A. Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov. Maxim Trankov was a commentator for Russian TV.


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Senior Championships
31-year-old Evgeni Plushenko, a ten-time national champion, was first in the men's short program by over five points ahead of 18-year-old Maxim Kovtun, with Sergei Voronov coming in third. In the free skate, Kovtun upset Plushenko to win his first national title, outscoring him by 11.09 points in the segment and 5.76 points overall. Voronov took the bronze, his sixth national medal. In fourth place overall was the 2011 national champion, 30-year-old Konstantin Menshov, who had to climb from 10th after the short program, while 15-year-old Adian Pitkeev finished fifth, 0.08 of a point ahead of Artur Gachinski. Mikhail Kolyada withdrew during the long program, unable to fix a problem with his laces.


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Senior Championships
In the short dance, defending national champions Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev scored 4.60 points more than second-placed Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov. The 2012 World Junior champions, Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin, landed in third place, 0.48 of a point ahead of the defending Russian bronze medalists, Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko. Bobrova / Soloviev also placed first in the free dance and won their fourth national title, defeating Ilinykh / Katsalapov by 7.29 points in the segment and 11.89 overall. The silver medalists both fell as a result of their blades clashing. Sinitsina / Zhiganshin took bronze—their first senior national medal—by outscoring Riazanova / Tkachenko by 1.13 points in the segment and 1.61 overall. The 2011 World Junior champions, Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin, finished in fifth place ahead of Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, who won the same title in 2013.


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Senior Championships
Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov earned a narrow victory in the pairs' short program, scoring 0.47 more than the 2012 national champions, Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov, while Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov were five points back in third. The top two were nearly tied in the free skate, Bazarova / Larionov placing first by 0.02. Stolbova / Klimov finished first overall by 0.45 and won their first national title. Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev, competing as juniors internationally, moved up from fourth to take the bronze medal.


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Senior Championships
The next four pairs clustered within 2.60 points of each other, led by Julia Antipova / Nodari Maisuradze who finished fourth for the second year in a row. Tarasova / Morozov dropped to eighth overall. Although she was hurt when they both fell during a lift near the end of their program, she was able to resume and complete the final element, a pair spin.


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Senior Championships
The 2012 national champion Adelina Sotnikova was first in the ladies' short program, 2.21 points ahead of Yulia Lipnitskaya, while Elena Radionova edged Alena Leonova by 0.73 of a point for third position. Lipnitskaia narrowly won the free skate, just 0.25 separating her from Sotnikova. Her overall score was 1.96 less than Sotnikova who won her fourth national title while Lipnitskaia took her second silver medal. Radionova remained in third, winning bronze. 13-year-old Alexandra Proklova finished fourth, edging out Leonova who slipped to fifth with a seventh-place free skate. Defending national champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva finished 10th.


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Junior Championships
The 2014 Russian Junior Championships (Russian: Первенство России) were held on 22–25 January 2014 in Saransk.


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, European Championships
The team to the 2014 European Championships was announced on 27 December 2013 as follows:


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Winter Olympics
The team to the 2014 Winter Olympics was announced on 22 January 2014 as follows:


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Junior Championships
The team to the 2014 World Junior Championships was announced on 28 January 2014 and amended in March 2014.


2014 Russian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Championships
Russia's provisional team to the 2014 World Championships was published by the International Skating Union on 4 March and confirmed by the Russian federation on 17 March:


2014 Russian Grand Prix
The 2014 Russian Grand Prix (formally known as the 2014 Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix; Russian: Гран-при России 2014 года, romanized: Gran-pri Rossii 2014 goda) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 October 2014. The fifty-three lap race was held at the Sochi Autodrom, a brand new circuit built on the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.


2014 Russian Grand Prix
The race was the sixteenth round of the 2014 season, following on from the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka one week previously, and preceding the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas. The race marked the first time that the Russian Grand Prix had been held in a century, and was also the first time the Russian Grand Prix was run as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the championship was formed in 1950.


2014 Russian Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes won the race after starting from pole position and leading every lap. His teammate Nico Rosberg finished second, after working his way up from the back of field after having to make an unscheduled pit stop on the first lap. Williams's Valtteri Bottas completed the podium, having set the fastest lap—and a new lap record—on the final lap of the race. Following Jules Bianchi's serious accident in the Japanese Grand Prix, Marussia entered a single car for Max Chilton, leaving the grid with twenty-one cars. The race ultimately proved to be Marussia's last of the season, as the team went into administration ahead of the next race in the United States.


2014 Russian Grand Prix
The result secured the World Constructors' Championship for Mercedes with three races remaining in the season, while Hamilton extended his World Drivers' Championship lead over Rosberg to seventeen points. Bottas's podium allowed him to overtake Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel in the drivers' standings.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Background, Preparations
With the circuit being built on the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee voiced concerns that construction would interrupt preparations for the Olympics, and so were given the power to postpone the inaugural Russian Grand Prix until the 2015 season if preparations for the race interfered with the Winter Olympics. However, the Olympic Games started without interruption, and the IOC did not exercise their power. FIA Race Director Charlie Whiting inspected the circuit in the week before the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix and gave it the FIA's final seal of approval, allowing the race to go ahead.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Background, Preparations
In September 2014, the circuit hosted a round of the Russian Touring Car Championship as preparation for the Grand Prix.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Background, Controversy
Following the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 and amid allegations of Russian involvement in the incident and the Russian military intervention in the country, there were calls from the British Conservative Party for Formula One to abandon the race as part of sanctions placed on the Russian government, as the race was established with financial support from the government. Similar suggestions were made from British and German parliamentarians over Russia's hosting of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Background, Controversy
When responding to questions about the race—and humanitarian concerns over the revival of the European Grand Prix in Azerbaijan given Azerbaijan's human rights record—Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner refused to offer any kind of judgement, pointing out that it was the responsibility of the FIA to monitor the situation and act accordingly; a position supported by Mercedes director Toto Wolff. Bernie Ecclestone, CEO of the sport's commercial rights holder, publicly stated that he had "no doubts" about the race taking place in the wake of the crash, and distanced the sport from ongoing political debates.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Background, Controversy
With Russia facing increased economic sanctions from the European Union and United States, deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak noted that the Grand Prix would not be affected in the event such sanctions were implemented, and the race went ahead as scheduled. Both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Kozak were in attendance, with Putin presenting the race winner's trophy.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Background, Support events
The GP2 and GP3 Series—a pair of feeder championships for drivers preparing for Formula One—also made their début at the circuit, racing in support of the Grand Prix as the penultimate round of the 2014 GP2 and GP3 championships.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Pre-event, Marussia entry
Marussia driver Jules Bianchi suffered serious head injuries at the Japanese Grand Prix when he crashed into a tractor trying to recover Adrian Sutil's Sauber under yellow-flag conditions, ruling him out of the Russian Grand Prix. Per FIA regulations, the team entered two cars, with Alexander Rossi, their testing and reserve driver, being named as Bianchi's replacement for the event. However, before Friday's practice sessions and with FIA approval, the team opted not to run the second Marussia MR03 car and Max Chilton was their sole representative, leaving the grid with twenty-one cars. As a sign of respect to Bianchi and his family, the team built up and placed his car in his side of the garage and had his livery placed on the walls for the duration of the weekend.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Pre-event, Marussia entry
There were several tributes at this Grand Prix to show support for Bianchi:


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Pre-event, Penalties
Pastor Maldonado incurred a ten-place penalty at the Japanese Grand Prix for exceeding his quota of five engine components for the season. However, as he qualified seventeenth, he was unable to take the full penalty as doing so would move him past twenty-second and last place on the grid. Under new rules introduced for the 2014 season, the remainder of the penalty was carried over to the Russian Grand Prix, automatically giving him a five-place penalty.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Pre-event, Tyres
Tyre supplier Pirelli announced that they would be providing teams with their medium-compound tyre as a "prime" tyre and the soft-compound as the "option" tyre for the Grand Prix to cope with the brand-new surface and to tolerate the high lateral loads placed on the tyre, particularly through turn 4, an elongated constant-radius corner with estimated speeds of 200 km/h (120 mph) that stands out as the longest corner on the 2014 Formula One calendar.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Pre-event, Drag reduction system
Two drag reduction system (DRS) zones were introduced for the race. The detection point for the first was located on the entry to turn 1, with the activation zone placed on the apex of the corner. The second detection point was positioned along the circuit's back straight, with the activation zone encompassing turns 12 and 13.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Free practice
In accordance with the  2014 regulations, three free practice sessions were held. Two one and a half-hour sessions on Friday and another one-hour session on Saturday morning. Per the regulations the teams were allowed to replace one of their regular drivers with a test and reserve driver during the first two sessions. Mercedes's Nico Rosberg set the fastest time in the first free practice session, seven hundredths of a second ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton, and two tenths of a second faster than McLaren's Jenson Button.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Free practice
Elsewhere, Williams's Valtteri Bottas carried out limited running after the tyre blankets designed to keep his tyres at the optimal operating temperature were found to have failed, damaging his tyres. Russian driver Sergey Sirotkin made his Formula One début, driving for Sauber in the place of Esteban Gutiérrez. He finished the session seventeenth overall, two and a half seconds slower than Rosberg and four tenths of a second behind Sauber teammate Adrian Sutil. Roberto Merhi also took part, driving in the place of Caterham's Kamui Kobayashi in his third appearance of the season for the team.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Free practice
Hamilton led the way in the second free practice session, finishing eight tenths of a second ahead of Kevin Magnussen and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. Rosberg finished fourth, though he made a mistake on his final flying lap. Hamilton was again fastest in the third practice session, three tenths of a second quicker than Rosberg, with Bottas in third. Several drivers encountered trouble whilst simulating a qualifying lap, most notably Magnussen, who damaged his suspension after running wide over a kerb; and Hamilton, who spun at the penultimate corner, narrowly avoiding the wall.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Free practice
Pastor Maldonado was unable to set a lap time after his energy recovery system failed. Aided by practice and qualifying sessions from the GP2 and GP3 Series support categories, the track evolved to the point where drivers were setting lap times three and a half seconds quicker ahead of qualifying than they had been at the start of the weekend.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Free practice
Following the first day's running, officials made several changes to the circuit, including the installation of speed bumps in the turn 2–3 run-off area to discourage drivers from deliberately running wide to carry more speed into turn 4, a practice that had been observed during the free practice and qualifying sessions for the GP2 and GP3 races. The pit lane speed was also revised from 80 km/h (50 mph) to 60 km/h (37 mph) to address concerns over the narrow pit entry and its tight corners.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Normally qualifying consists of three parts, 18, 15 and 12 minutes in length respectively, with six drivers eliminated from competing after each of the first two sessions. However, with Marussia's permission to run a single car for the race, the qualifying procedure was revised, with five drivers—instead of the usual six—eliminated at the end of the first part of qualifying (Q1).


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Lewis Hamilton topped the first period, going under 1:39.000 for the first time all weekend. Nico Rosberg was a close second, with Valtteri Bottas the only other driver within a second of Hamilton's lap time. Marcus Ericsson was eliminated in seventeenth place, once again out-qualifying teammate Kamui Kobayashi, who finished nineteenth. After struggling with another engine fault, Pastor Maldonado could only set a time good enough for twentieth, out-qualifying the sole Marussia of Max Chilton.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Williams driver Felipe Massa proved to be a shock elimination, struggling with a fuel flow issue that left him down on power; he was recorded going through the speed trap on the approach to turn 2 some 23 km/h (14 mph) slower than Bottas, the fastest driver through the speed trap, and qualified eighteenth for his first Q1 elimination since the British Grand Prix.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Hamilton, Rosberg and Bottas once again led the way in Q2, which saw several drivers in a close fight to avoid elimination. Having struggled with a lack of pace over the course of the weekend, Sebastian Vettel missed out on a Q3 berth by a tenth of a second. He was followed by the Force Indias of Nico Hülkenberg in twelfth and Sergio Pérez in thirteenth, while Esteban Gutiérrez out-qualified Adrian Sutil to give the Saubers fourteenth and fifteenth. Romain Grosjean was the final driver eliminated in Q2 despite having improved upon his Q1 time.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
The Mercedes drivers continued to dominate in the final twelve-minute period, but the rapid evolution of the circuit came to an abrupt halt after the first timed laps, and neither Hamilton nor Rosberg were able to improve their times, leaving Hamilton with provisional pole. Despite the lap times dropping off, Valtteri Bottas was able to best Hamilton's time through the first two sectors, and maintained a pace that suggested he could steal a maiden pole position until he made an unforced error in the final corner.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Jenson Button finished fourth, with Kevin Magnussen proving McLaren's newfound performance was no accident in sixth. Daniil Kvyat secured a career-best fifth place in his home Grand Prix, while Daniel Ricciardo out-qualified teammate Vettel for the eleventh time in 2014 with seventh. Ferrari endured their most difficult qualifying session since the British Grand Prix,  with Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen closely matched, but over two seconds behind Hamilton. Jean-Éric Vergne finished tenth overall, ensuring two Toro Rossos in the top ten.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying, Post-qualifying
Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hülkenberg received five-place grid penalties for gearbox changes, demoting them to eleventh and seventeenth place respectively. Pastor Maldonado qualified in twentieth which became twenty-first once his carry-over penalty was applied. Maldonado and Max Chilton also received a five-place penalty for a gearbox change.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race
At the start of the race, Nico Rosberg attempted to out-brake Lewis Hamilton into turn 2, but locked both of his front wheels, running wide and creating a flat spot on both tyres. After returning the position to Hamilton, he made a pit stop at the end of the lap, as the flat spots would create a vibration in the car given the high speeds and lateral loading on the tyres.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race
He immediately changed to the harder Prime compound, with the team switching to a strategy that called for him to do the next fifty-two laps of the race on a single set of tyres. Rosberg took advantage of the pit strategies of other drivers and the straight-line speed of his car to gradually work his way through the field. Behind him, Felipe Massa attempted to replicate his strategy, also making a pit stop on the first lap, but switching to the softer Option compound. He was less successful than Rosberg, hampered by slower mid-field drivers.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race
At the front of the field, Valtteri Bottas was able to keep up with Hamilton during the early stages of the race, but Hamilton was able to gradually build up a forty-second lead by the time of the first—and only—round of pit stops, giving him enough of a buffer to pit without losing the lead, even when faced with the lowered speed limit and lengthy pit lane of the Sochi Autodrom. Hamilton was unchallenged throughout the race, ultimately winning by thirteen seconds ahead of Rosberg following his recovery and giving the team their ninth one-two finish of the season. Bottas finished in third, his fifth podium of the season, having been overtaken by Rosberg on track. Despite having fresher tyres and setting a series of laps among the fastest in the race—including the fastest lap and the official lap record—he was unable to catch Rosberg in the final laps.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race
McLaren drivers Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen finished fourth and fifth, giving Mercedes-powered cars the top five places in the final standings. McLaren attempted to adjust Button's strategy to place ahead of Rosberg after his pit stop, but were powerless to prevent Rosberg from overtaking. Magnussen spent the early phase of the race in a strategy battle with Fernando Alonso, Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel, which he ultimately won. Alonso finished in sixth, the first non-Mercedes-powered driver across the line, having spent most of the race fending off Ricciardo. After spending most of the weekend struggling with an under-powered and under-performing car, Vettel secured four World Championship points with eighth place. Kimi Räikkönen and Sergio Pérez completed the top ten.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Felipe Massa's attempt at replicating Rosberg's strategy failed, leaving him outside the points in eleventh place, ahead of Nico Hülkenberg. Despite qualifying in fifth and tenth, Toro Rosso drivers Daniil Kvyat and Jean-Éric Vergne finished in fourteenth and thirteenth place respectively, having been forced to race conservatively in the face of high fuel consumption and a predicted 12 °C (22 °F) drop in temperature in the final stages of the race, which never eventuated.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race
Esteban Gutiérrez led Sauber teammate Adrian Sutil across the line one lap down with the latter's race having been disrupted by contact with Romain Grosjean at turn 2 for which Grosjean was punished with a five-second stop/go penalty. Grosjean ultimately finished seventeenth ahead of Pastor Maldonado, with Marcus Ericsson the final classified finisher in nineteenth place, two laps behind Hamilton.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race
The race saw two retirements, with Kamui Kobayashi forced out on lap twenty-one with what the team described as a brake issue, though Kobayashi later suggested that Caterham had deliberately retired the car to avoid damaging its power unit ahead of the next race. He also reported that the team had found damage to a suspension wishbone following free practice 3, and that with no replacement part available, the team had repaired the damage by fusing the wishbone together with carbon, a solution that Kobayashi felt was unsafe. Marussia's difficult race lasted just nine laps, with Max Chilton reporting an unusual vibration in his front-left suspension, and the team elected to retire the car rather than risk a suspension failure.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race, Post-race
With twenty-five points for first place, Lewis Hamilton extended his World Drivers' Championship lead over Nico Rosberg by seven points to carry a seventeen-point margin into the United States Grand Prix. By out-scoring title rivals Red Bull Racing, the result also secured the World Constructors' Championship for Mercedes, their first title as a Formula One constructor. Hamilton dedicated the win to Jules Bianchi.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race, Post-race
Valtteri Bottas's podium finish elevated him from sixth to fourth in the drivers' standings,  overtaking Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso. The result also allowed Williams to consolidate their hold on third place in the constructors' standings, ahead of Ferrari. Further down the order, fourth and fifth places for McLaren and minor points placings for Force India saw the British team overtake their rivals for fifth place in the standings.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Race, Post-race
Both Marussia and Caterham went into administration after the race, citing financial difficulties. Although Caterham returned to compete in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the team collapsed shortly thereafter. Marussia faced a similar fate before a last-minute deal with an investor rescued the team, and they returned to the Formula One grid in 2015, albeit registered as a British, rather than Russian competitor.


2014 Russian Grand Prix, Report, Accolades
In December 2014, the race was awarded with the Formula One Promotional Trophy. Dmitry Kozak received the award from Bernie Ecclestone in a special ceremony at the circuit.


2014 Russian Super Cup
The 2014 Russian Football Super Cup (Russian: Суперкубок России по футболу) was the 12th Russian Super Cup match, a football match which was contested between the 2013–14 Russian Premier League champion, CSKA Moscow, and the 2013–14 Russian Cup champion, Rostov.


2014 Russian Super Cup
The match was held on 26 July 2014 at the Kuban Stadium, in Krasnodar.


2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine
The Russian cross-border artillery shelling of Ukraine happened in July–September 2014 amidst the war in Donbas to prevent the defeat of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. The Russian Armed Forces performed a series of artillery strikes targeting Ukrainian troops in the Donbas region of Ukraine.


2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine, Background
In late June 2014, Ukrainian forces launched a major operation to restore control of the Russo-Ukrainian border. The success of this operation threatened the very existence of Russian-supported DPR and LPR statelets.


2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine, History
On 11 July 2014, a Ukrainian camp in Zelenopillya village near Ukrainian-Russian border was shelled by modern Russian MLRS system 9K51M "Tornado-G", Ukrainian forces suffered heavy casualties. A massive and unexpected artillery attack killed 37 and wounded over 100 soldiers.


2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine, History
On 13 July 2014, Russia claimed mortar shells fired from Ukrainian territory landed in the courtyard of a private home in the border town of Donetsk in the Rostov Oblast of Russia. The shelling killed one civilian and injured two others. Russia said it would be considering "surgical strikes" that target Ukrainian military positions near the border, but there would not be a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.


2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine, History
Russian artillery shelled Ukrainian territory repeatedly during the following days. Live videos had captured Grad rockets fired from inside Russia. According to Bellingcat's investigation, they counted at least 1,353 artillery craters in only three locations: in Amvrosiivka city (14 July 2014), location between Dolzhanskaya-Capital mine and the village of Panchenkove (16 July to 8 August 2014), and Khmelnytskyi (25 July 2014).


2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine, History
On 24 July 2014, the American government stated that it had evidence that the Russian military was firing on Ukrainian territory from across the border. A spokesman for the US Department of Defence stated that there was "no question" as to Russia's involvement in the attacks on Ukrainian Armed Forces. On 27 July, U.S. officials confirmed Russia had shelled Ukrainian territory. At the time, Russian government spokesman denied these allegations. On 28 July, US State Department published satellite photos showing heavy artillery shelling Ukrainian positions from Russian territory.


2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine, History
The shelling had escalated at least one week prior to a Russian invasion by stealth in August 2014. According to NATO reports, Russian military shelled Ukrainian positions across the border from mid-August, and by 22 August, Russian artillery and personnel had crossed the border into Ukraine itself.


2014 Russian elections
Election Day in Russia was held on September 14, 2014.


2014 Russian elections, Regional legislative elections
1 Internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, see political status of Crimea and 2014 Crimean crisis for details


2014 Russian hacker password theft
The 2014 Russian hacker password theft is an alleged hacking incident resulting in the possible theft of over 1.2 billion internet credentials, including usernames and passwords, with hundreds of millions of corresponding e-mail addresses. The data breach was first reported by the New York Times (and then reported in many other media) after being allegedly discovered and reported by Milwaukee-based information security company, Hold Security.


2014 Russian hacker password theft
420,000 websites are reported to be affected. According to a New York Times source, some big companies know that their user's credentials are among the stolen. Hold Security did not disclose which sites were compromised, but, instead, offered two separate services, one for website owners and one for consumers to check if they're affected. The service for website owners costs $10 a month. is free.


2014 Russian hacker password theft
Hold Security described the group responsible for the hack as a small group of “fewer than a dozen men in their 20s ... based in a small city in south central Russia, the region flanked by Kazakhstan and Mongolia,” and dubbed the group CyberVor (Russian, lit. "cyber thief"). Hold claimed the hack was perpetrated through the use of SQL injection. According to a Forbes article, Hold Security says that not all the 1.2 billion credentials were stolen this way, there are also ones that CyberVor simply bought from people that used other means, and Hold Security doesn't know what the split is.


2014 Russian hacker password theft, Criticism of Hold Security
Forbes columnist, Kashmir Hill, noted "The Internet predictably panicked as the story of yet another massive password breach went viral." and "[T]his is a pretty direct link between a panic and a pay-out for a security firm." Hold Security's website has a service offering people to check if their username and password pair has been stolen. It requires people to send Hold Security encrypted versions of their passwords.


2014 Russian hacker password theft, Skepticism
No named independent sources have come forward to confirm the breach, and Forbes columnist, Joseph Steinberg, even expressed outright skepticism about many of the "facts" claimed about the breach, raising questions about the trustworthiness of the reports of the breach altogether.


2014 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team
The 2014 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University–New Brunswick in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Scarlet Knights played their home games at High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey in their inaugural year as a member of the Big Ten Conference, having played the previous year in the American Athletic Conference. They were led by third year head coach Kyle Flood. They finished the season 8–5, 3–5 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for fourth place in the East Division. They were invited to the Quick Lane Bowl where they defeated North Carolina.


2014 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team, Previous season
The Scarlet Knights played the 2013 season in the American Athletic Conference.


2014 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team, Game summaries, Maryland
Rutgers had the biggest comeback in school history, being down 35-10 towards the end of the first half.


2014 Ryder Cup
The 40th Ryder Cup matches were held 26–28 September 2014 in Scotland on the PGA Centenary Course at the Gleneagles Hotel near Auchterarder in Perth & Kinross. This was the second Ryder Cup held in Scotland; it was previously at Muirfield in 1973. The team captains in 2014 were Paul McGinley for Europe and Tom Watson for the USA.


2014 Ryder Cup
Europe were the defending cup holders, having won in 2012 at Medinah Country Club near Chicago.


2014 Ryder Cup
Europe won the 2014 competition to retain the Ryder Cup, defeating the US by 161⁄2 points to 111⁄2, for their third consecutive win. From 1995 to 2014, Europe won eight out of ten Ryder Cups.


2014 Ryder Cup, Format
The Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. The competition format was as follows:


2014 Ryder Cup, Format
On the Monday before the competition, European captain Paul McGinley announced that he had chosen to play fourball matches in the mornings, as had been the case for every European home captain since 1997 (while American home captains have chosen to play foursomes in the mornings every year except for 2004).


2014 Ryder Cup, Format
With a total of 28 points available, 141⁄2 points were required for the US to win the Ryder Cup, and 14 points were required for Europe to retain it. All matches were played to a maximum of 18 holes. If a match was level after 18 holes each side was awarded half a point.


2014 Ryder Cup, Course
The Gleneagles Hotel, located one hour outside of Edinburgh and set in grounds of 850 acres (340 ha; 1.33 sq mi), had undergone a major redevelopment programme, partly in preparation for the 2014 Ryder Cup.


2014 Ryder Cup, Course
The PGA Centenary Course, designed by Jack Nicklaus and one of three at Gleneagles, currently measures 7,262 yards (6,640 m) off the championship tees. The course was awarded the Ryder Cup in 2001, and it was originally scheduled to host the matches in 2013, however this was delayed a year due to the alteration of the Ryder Cup schedule after the September 11 attacks in 2001. This was the final Ryder Cup to be affected by the rescheduling, as it was the furthest scheduled match at the time of the attacks. Just as the 2012 matches had been, all future matches are regularly scheduled for even-numbered years.


2014 Ryder Cup, Television
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Sky Sports provided live coverage, with the BBC showing highlights each evening on free-to-air television.


2014 Ryder Cup, Television
Coverage in South Africa was provided on the Supersport channels.


2014 Ryder Cup, Television
In the US, corporate siblings Golf Channel and NBC televised the event live, after NBC had traded for complete rights (that it was contractually given the rights to in 2005) back from ESPN, who had televised the previous three Ryder Cups on Friday. Golf Channel televised action on Friday and a half-hour on Saturday, from where NBC took over for the rest of the weekend. In the early-morning sessions, Terry Gannon hosted from the 18th tower alongside Frank Nobilo. Curt Byrum and Tom Abbott served as hole announcers and Jerry Foltz was an on-course commentator.


2014 Ryder Cup, Television
Nick Faldo appeared as a guest commentator on Friday, and sparked controversy after critical comments about Sergio García. For the afternoon sessions and the singles matches on Sunday, the regular NBC golf crew provided coverage. Dan Hicks and Johnny Miller hosted from the 18th tower, with Gary Koch and Peter Jacobsen as hole announcers. On course commentators were Mark Rolfing, Roger Maltbie and Notah Begay III. On the weekend, Colin Montgomerie appeared as a guest commentator to lend a European perspective, a role he previously filled for NBC in 2012.


2014 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, Europe
The European team qualification rules were announced on 21 May 2013. The number of captain's picks was increased from 2 to 3 with the number of players qualifying from the European Points being reduced from 5 to 4. The team consists of:


2014 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, Europe
The leading players in the European Ryder Cup points lists were:


2014 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, Europe
In the European points list, Donaldson had overtaken García by winning the penultimate qualifying event (the D+D Real Czech Masters) and since neither García nor Bjørn played in the final event (the Italian Open) and since no other player could pass Donaldson, he was assured of his place before the Italian Open.


2014 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, Europe
The leading four players in the World points list (García, Rose, Kaymer and Bjørn) had qualified before the final event (the Italian Open). Stephen Gallacher was then 11.21 points behind Graeme McDowell. The winner of the Italian Open would score 24 points with second place scoring 14.4 and third 9.6. Gallacher therefore needed to either win the Italian Open, finish second alone or finish second jointly with just one other player (scoring 12 points) to overtake McDowell and move into the final automatic qualification spot. In the final round he scored 65 but David Howell (playing in the group before) had scored 63 to take second place by a single shot, pushing Gallacher down to third place.


2014 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, United States
The United States qualification rules were announced on 20 March 2013. They remained the same as for 2012 except that the number of captain's picks was reduced from four to three. The team consists of:


2014 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, United States
Players in the qualifying places are shown in green, and captain's picks are shown in yellow. In late July Dustin Johnson announced that he was taking a leave of absence from golf and would miss the Ryder Cup. The qualifying places were therefore extended to the player finishing in 10th place in the points list. Mickelson's second-place finish in the 2014 PGA Championship lifted him from 11th to 5th place in the standings.


2014 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, United States
Zach Johnson made the cut in the PGA Championship and this was sufficient to lift him above Jason Dufner and give him the last automatic place despite a last round of 77 which left him in a tie for 70th place and 35.8 points. Dufner withdrew from the event because of a neck injury.


2014 Ryder Cup, Team qualification and selection, United States
In mid-August Tiger Woods announced that he would not be able to play in the 2014 Ryder Cup because of back problems and would therefore not be one of Watson's three captain's picks. Woods had finished 71st in the Ryder Cup points list.


2014 Ryder Cup, Teams, Captains
Tom Watson was named the USA team captain on 13 December 2012. At 65 he became the oldest Ryder Cup captain; a record previously held by J.H. Taylor who was 62 when he captained the Great Britain team in 1933. Previously the oldest United States captain had been Sam Snead who was 57 when he was captain in 1969.


2014 Ryder Cup, Teams, Captains
Paul McGinley was named the Europe team captain on 15 January 2013. He was the first Irishman to captain the Ryder Cup side. McGinley had previously always been on the winning side in the Ryder Cup; as a player in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and as a vice-captain in 2010 and 2012.


2014 Ryder Cup, Teams, Vice-captains
Each captain selected a number of vice-captains to assist him during the tournament.


2014 Ryder Cup, Teams, Vice-captains
In July 2013, Watson named Andy North as a vice-captain. In February 2014, he named Raymond Floyd as his second vice-captain and in August he chose Steve Stricker as a third vice-captain.


2014 Ryder Cup, Teams, Vice-captains
In March 2014, McGinley named Des Smyth and Sam Torrance as vice-captains. In September 2014, McGinley then announced that Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Pádraig Harrington and José María Olazábal would also join his backroom team, making five vice-captains in total.


2014 Ryder Cup, Teams, Players
Captains picks are shown in yellow; the world rankings and records are at the start of the 2014 Ryder Cup.


2014 Ryder Cup, Teams, Players
The players with the highest world rankings not on the team were: Luke Donald (ranked 32), Joost Luiten (36), and Miguel Ángel Jiménez (37).


2014 Ryder Cup, Teams, Players
The players with the highest world rankings not on the team were: Billy Horschel (ranked 14), Chris Kirk (22), and Steve Stricker (28). Their respective rankings on 2 September were 45, 25, and 24. The rankings for 7 September were 23, 24, and 25, respectively. After finishing tied for second at the Deutsche Bank Championship on 1 September, Horschel had won the next two events, the BMW Championship and The Tour Championship, to secure the FedEx Cup.


2014 Ryder Cup, Teams, Players
Mickelson extended his own U.S. team record with his 10th appearance. Nick Faldo holds the European record with 11.


2014 Ryder Cup, Friday's matches, Morning fourballs
The United States won two matches and halved another to take the lead in the Ryder Cup. Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed, the youngest American pairing in the history of the competition, defeated Ian Poulter and Stephen Gallacher 5 & 4. This was Poulter's first loss in his last eight Ryder Cup matches.


2014 Ryder Cup, Friday's matches, Morning fourballs
The Spieth/Reed pairing had a combined age of 45 compared to the previous youngest American pairing which had been the Justin Leonard/Tiger Woods pairing in 1997 which had a combined age of 46. The youngest in Ryder Cup history are the Mark James/Ken Brown pairing in 1977 with a combined age of 43 and Bernard Gallacher/Maurice Bembridge in 1969 with a combined age of 44.


2014 Ryder Cup, Friday's matches, Afternoon foursomes
Europe won three matches and halved the fourth to take a 5–3 lead in the Ryder Cup. It was the first time since 2006 that Europe led after the first day of the competition. Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson, who won 5 & 4 in their morning match, played again and won; they never trailed at any point during the day. Gene Wojciechowski, a columnist for ESPN, criticized American captain Tom Watson for not playing Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed in the afternoon after they had won their morning match 5 & 4.


2014 Ryder Cup, Saturday's matches, Morning fourballs
The European pairing of Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson led off and won their third straight match in two days. Their score of 12-under set a Ryder Cup record in fourballs.


2014 Ryder Cup, Saturday's matches, Afternoon foursomes
For the second straight day, Europe earned 31⁄2 points in the afternoon foursomes, increasing their lead to 4 going into the singles matches.


2014 Ryder Cup, Saturday's matches, Afternoon foursomes
Because of a late finish by Rory McIlroy in the morning session Match 2 (Furyk/Mahan v. García/McIlroy) started after Match 3 (Spieth/Reed v. Kaymer/Rose). The table below reflects the official order.


2014 Ryder Cup, Sunday's singles matches
Europe won the Ryder Cup for the third consecutive time. Welshman Jamie Donaldson played the winning shot when his second to the 15th hole landed less than 2 feet from the hole and Keegan Bradley conceded the hole. Donaldson had halved the 14th hole with Bradley to find himself in a dormie position, where a minimum half-point is guaranteed. This meant that Europe were guaranteed a minimum 14–14 score (enough to retain the cup) but the scores are not official until the match is actually won, or halved after 18 holes.


2014 Ryder Cup, Individual player records
Each entry refers to the Win–Loss–Half record of the player.


2014 S.League
The 2014 S.League was the 19th season since the establishment of the S.League, the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs. The league was also known as the Great Eastern Yeo's S.League due to sponsorship reasons. Tampines Rovers were the defending champions.


2014 S.League
For the first time, free-to-air MediaCorp okto broadcast all Friday matches that were held at the Jalan Besar Stadium live on its channel, including a weekly S.League Show. The season started on 21 February 2014, and concluded on 31 October 2014.


2014 S.League, Teams
A total of 12 teams contested the league. There were no changes to the participating sides from the previous season. Albirex Niigata (S), DPMM FC and Harimau Muda B were invited foreign clubs from Japan, Brunei and Malaysia respectively.


2014 S.League, Teams, Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 S.League, Foreign players
Each club is allowed to have up to a maximum of five foreign players.


2014 S/S
2014 S/S is the debut album of South Korean group Winner. It was released on August 12, 2014, by the group's record label, YG Entertainment. The members were credited for writing the lyrics and composing the majority of the album's songs.


2014 S/S, Composition
The members produced the majority of the music for this album themselves, with the help of other producers such as Choice 37, B.I.,  Airplay, and others. The album was highlighted for incorporating elements generally absent from K-pop releases, including hints of acoustic and alternative rock.


2014 S/S, Reception
The title track "Empty" became a hit in South Korea, topping the Gaon Chart and Billboard's K-Pop Hot 100 chart. Internationally, 2014 S/S took the top spot in Billboard's World Album Chart.


2014 SABA Championship
The 2014 SABA Championship is the 3rd SABA Championship, and the qualifying event in the South Asia Basketball Association subzone, one of the FIBA Asia's subzone for the 2014 FIBA Asia Cup. The games were held from May 13 to May 17 in Kathmandu, Nepal.


2014 SABA Championship
India won their second SABA title after sweeping the whole tournament, thus clinching the lone spot for SABA in the 2014 FIBA Asia Cup.


2014 SAFF Women's Championship
The 2014 SAFF Women's Championship was an association football tournament for women's national teams organised by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). It was the third edition of the tournament since the first one in 2010. The competition was contested by the eight SAFF members. India are the reigning champions.


2014 SAFF Women's Championship
The tournament was hosted in Pakistan from 11 to 21 November 2014.


2014 SAFF Women's Championship
In the final India beat Nepal for the third time and remains the only nation to lift the title. Indian player Ng Bala Devi won the top-scorer award averaging over three goals per match.


2014 SAFF Women's Championship, Host selection
On 10 September 2013, SAFF executive committee decided that 3rd SAFF Women's championship will be held in Pakistan.


2014 SAFF Women's Championship, Venue
Jinnah Sports Stadium in Islamabad hosted all matches. Although entry to all games was free there were very few local spectators. After a suicide attack one week before start, there were some security concerns but the tournament was considered safe by the Pakistan Football Federation.


2014 SAFF Women's Championship, Fixtures and results
Draw was done on 10 November 2014 at Manager's meeting.


2014 SANFL Grand Final
The 2014 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) was an Australian rules football competition. Norwood beat Port Adelaide by 82 to 78.


2014 SANFL season
The 2014 South Australian National Football League season (officially the SANFL IGA League) was the 135th season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Australian rules football competition.


2014 SANFL season
2014 introduced a number of changes to the league. The size of the league increased from 9 clubs to 10 clubs, after the South Australian Football Commission granted the Australian Football League's Adelaide Football Club a licence to field a reserves team in the competition. Adelaide Oval replaced Football Park as headquarters of the SANFL, resulting in the renovated venue hosting one SANFL minor round match (Anzac Day) and all six SANFL finals matches. The season was shortened to finish a week before the AFL Grand Final, instead of a week after, as had been the case for most years since 1980.


2014 SANFL season
Norwood were the premiers for the 2014 season, after they defeated Port Adelaide by 4 points in the Grand Final in front of a crowd of 38,644, the largest such crowd since 1999. It was the third consecutive premiership for Norwood and their 30th overall.


2014 SANFL season
Sturt, South Adelaide and Woodville-West Torrens also made the top (final) five teams and participated in the finals series. North Adelaide, Central District, Adelaide, West Adelaide and Glenelg all missed the top five, with Glenelg finishing bottom to record its 17th wooden spoon.


2014 SANFL season, Club performances, SANFL Premiership
† Adelaide had only one home game in 2014; at Clare Oval in the regional town of Clare. Also Norwood's "home" crowd in Round 4 was 10,014 (Rd 4) for the Anzac Day match at Adelaide Oval against North Adelaide.


2014 SANFL season, Club performances, SANFL Win/Loss Table
Bold – Home gameX – Did Not PlayOpponent for round listed above margin


2014 SARU Community Cup
The 2014 SARU Community Cup (known as the 2014 Cell C Community Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the second season of the SARU Community Cup competition. The qualification to the tournament took place in 2013, while the competition proper was contested in 2014. The tournament is the top competition for non-university rugby union clubs in South Africa.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Competition, Qualification format
Qualification to the Community Cup was determined via the club leagues of the fourteen provincial unions, plus Blue Bulls Limpopo. All university and other tertiary institutions were ineligible to participate in the Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Competition, Qualification format
The highest-placed eligible team in each of the fifteen leagues automatically qualified to the Community Cup (league rules determined if this is after the league stages or after the title-play-offs). As holders, Despatch were guaranteed qualification to the Community Cup. In addition, wildcard teams chosen by SARU also qualified to take the number of participants up to twenty. Teams that participated in the 2013 Community Cup were not eligible for the wildcard draw for the 2014 Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Competition, Finals format
The format of the Community Cup was the same as the Rugby World Cup. The teams were divided into four pools, each containing five teams. They then played four pool games, playing other teams in their respective pools once. Each team played two home games and two away games.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Competition, Finals format
The winner and runner-up of each pool entered the play-off stage, held at a central venue over the Easter long weekend each year. The play-offs consisted of quarter finals, semi-finals and the final. The winner of each pool met the runner-up of a different pool in a quarter final. The winner of each quarter-final went on to the semi-finals and the semi-final winners to the final, to be held at a neutral venue.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Competition, Finals format
The losing semi-finalists played each other in the Plate final. The losing quarter finalists met in the Bowl semi-final, the winners of which played in the Bowl final, the losers playing in the Shield final.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification
The highest-placed non-university clubs in the 2013 season of each of the fourteen provincial unions' club leagues, as well as defending champions Despatch and wildcard teams all qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup competition.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Blue Bulls
The log leader after the pool stage qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup. The play-off finals have no bearing on qualification to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Blue Bulls Limpopo
The play-off final winner qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Boland
The log leader after the pool stage qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Border
The play-off final winner qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Eastern Province
The log leader after the pool stage qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup. Despatch qualified as the holders. The play-off finals have no bearing on qualification to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Free State
The log leader after the pool stage qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup. The play-off finals have no bearing on qualification to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Free State, Rowan Cup
The Rowan Cup is the play-off for fourth to sixth place.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Golden Lions
The log leader after the pool stage qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Griffons
The play-off final winner qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Griquas
The log leader after the pool stage qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, KwaZulu-Natal
The log leader after the pool stage qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Leopards
A play-off would be held between Rustenburg Impala, either Klerksdorp or Vaal Reefs and the possibly winner of the Neser A League final, with play-off winner qualifying to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Mpumalanga
The play-off final winner qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, South Western Districts
The play-off final winner qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Valke
The play-off final winner qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Western Province
The log leader after the pool stage qualified to the 2014 SARU Community Cup.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Wildcard draw
Provincial unions could also enter one team that did not participate in the 2013 Community Cup into the wildcard draw. Teams that played in the 2013 SARU Community Cup were ineligible for wildcard nomination in 2014.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Qualification, Wildcard draw
On 4 November 2013, SARU named the following teams as the wildcard entries for the 2014 Community Cup:


2014 SARU Community Cup, Teams
The following teams qualified for the 2014 SARU Community Cup:


2014 SARU Community Cup, Pool Stages
On 23 August 2013, the draw was made for the 2014 SARU Community Cup and the 20 teams were drawn in the 4 pools. The fixtures were released on 15 November 2013.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Finals
The finals were played at Outeniqua Park, George from 17 to 21 April 2014.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Finals, Quarter Finals
The winning teams qualified to the Cup Semi-Finals, while the losing teams qualified to the Bowl Semi-Finals.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Finals, Cup Semi-Finals
The winning teams qualify to the Cup Final, while the losing teams qualify to the Plate Final.


2014 SARU Community Cup, Finals, Bowl Semi-Finals
The winning teams qualify to the Bowl Final, while the losing teams qualify to the Shield Final.


2014 SBS Drama Awards
The 2014 SBS Drama Awards (Korean: SBS 연기대상) is a ceremony honoring the best performances in television on the SBS network for the year 2014. It was held at the COEX Hall D in Samseong-dong, Seoul on December 31, 2014, and hosted by Lee Hwi-jae, Park Shin-hye, and Park Seo-joon.


2014 SC324
2014 SC324 is a sub-kilometer asteroid and fast rotator, classified as a near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 50 meters in diameter. It was first observed on 30 September 2014, by the Mount Lemmon Survey at an apparent magnitude of 21 using a 1.5-meter (59 in) reflecting telescope. With an absolute magnitude of 24.3, the asteroid is about 37–85 meters in diameter.


2014 SC324, Description
The preliminary orbit with a short observation arc of 2 days showed that the asteroid had a very small chance of passing 0.000125 AU (18,700 km; 11,600 mi) from the Moon or 0.0012 AU (180,000 km; 110,000 mi) from Earth on about 23 October 2014. But with an observation arc of 10 days, the nominal (best fit) orbit showed that on 24 October 2014 the asteroid would pass 0.0038 AU (570,000 km; 350,000 mi) (1.5 LD) from Earth and even further from the Moon. The asteroid peaked at apparent magnitude 13.5, placing it in the range of amateurs with roughly 0.25-meter (10 in) telescopes.


2014 SC324, Description
It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 10 October 2014 using JPL solution #5 with a 10-day observation arc.


2014 SC324, Description
It was observed by Goldstone radar on 24–25 October 2014.


2014 SCO summit
The 2014 SCO summit  was the 13th annual summit of heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation held between 11 and 12 September in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Security was among the top issues for 13th annual summit and all members during the last meeting reached a consensus on fighting against separatism, extremism and terrorism, as well as on safeguarding regional peace and security therefore Afghanistan will be focal point during talks in Dushanbe, claim some diplomats of member countries.


2014 SCO summit, Background
In the build-up to the summit, a foreign ministers meeting was held on 30 July. It was hosted by Sirodjidin Aslov and was also attended by Secretary-General Dmitry Mezentsev of Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov offered assistance in stabilising the border with Afghanistan. In the final communique, Aslov said:


2014 SCO summit, Background
At the meeting we approved the draft resolution of the Council of Heads of State 'On the SCO Draft Development Strategy until 2025,' which will determine the guidelines for future interaction and improve our action efficiency. The current meeting’s peculiarity is that the work on the coordination and preparation of legal documents on the admission of new members is actually on the homestretch. The delegations' heads have approved draft procedures for the granting of SCO member status and a new version of the model memorandum on the obligations of applicant states, seeking the SCO member state status.


2014 SCO summit, Background
Military exercises will commence on 24 August, scheduled to be the biggest in 10 years. A joint anti-terrorist drill was also held in China from 24 to 29 August with about 7,000 troops including over 200 Tajiks, over 480 Kyrgyz who were the first to arrive. By 12, August, over 1,000 non-Chinese soldiers and officers were headed to Inner Mongolia via road, rail and air. There were also 12 Russian aircraft in the exercise.


2014 SCO summit, Background
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also visited Dushanbe about a month before the summit, as did Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov. The corresponding heads of government meeting will take place in December in Astana, Kazakhstan.


2014 SCO summit, Attending delegations
The heads of state of the six countries participated in the summit.


2014 SCO summit, Agenda
India, Iran, Pakistan and Mongolia were due to become a full member at the 11–12 September summit, thereby upgrading their observer member status. The decision was made at the foreign ministers meeting earlier in the year. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told of China acceptance of expansion at the 6th BRICS summit.


2014 SCTV Awards
The 2014 SCTV Awards honored the popular in Indonesian television program and music. The ceremony awards was held at the Studio 6 in Daan Mogot, West Jakarta, on November 29, 2014, and was broadcast on SCTV. It was hosted by Andhika Pratama, Narji, Audi Marissa, and Gading Marten. The ceremony awards were attendees included Syahrini, Wali, Geisha, and others.


2014 SCTV Awards
This year edition of ceremony awards were adding for three new categories, are Most Famous Young Artist, Most Famous Soap Opera Soundtrack and Most Favorite Social Media Artist. A Lifetime Achievement Award was also presented back.


2014 SCTV Awards, Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced in November 2014. The winners are listed on boldface.


2014 SEABA Championship for Women
The 2014 SEABA Championship for Women was the 8th SEABA Championship for Women. It was held in Semarang, Indonesia from May 26 to May 29, coinciding with the 2014 SEABA Under-18 Championship for Women.


2014 SEABA Championship for Women
Malaysia defeated Indonesia in the finals, 65-53, to clinch its second title which they last won 15 years ago in Genting in Malaysia.


2014 SEABA Cup
The 2014 SEABA Cup was the qualifying event in the SEABA subzone for the 2014 FIBA Asia Cup. The games were held from May 21 to 23 in Batam, Riau Islands Province, in Indonesia.


2014 SEABA Cup
Automatically, only one spot is allotted for SEABA but due to the Philippines' runner-up finish in the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship, the subzone was awarded another slot, thus SEABA will now have two spots which will be contested by three SEABA teams.


2014 SEABA Cup
Singapore won their first international title ever after posting their second win in as many games in the three-game round-robin tournament to clinch the title in the 2014 SEABA Cup. Singapore and hosts Indonesia represented SEABA subzone in the 2014 FIBA Asia Cup, along with the Philippines that was invited as a wildcard after the Gulf subzone representative withdrew from the competition.


2014 SEABA Under-18 Championship
The 2014 SEABA Under-18 Championship was the qualifying tournament for Southeast Asia Basketball Association at the 2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship. The tournament was the ninth edition and was held in Tawau, in Sabah, Malaysia from May 5 to 7. The top two teams represented SEABA in the 2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship.


2014 SEABA Under-18 Championship
After the single round-robin elimination, the Philippines won its seventh title overall in the tournament, and its fourth consecutive title since 2008. Malaysia finished second to qualify for the 2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship.


2014 SEABA Under-18 Championship for Women
The 2014 SEABA Under-18 Championship for Women was the maiden edition of SEABA Championship for young women ages eighteen (18) and below. The qualifying tournament for the 2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Women, it was held in Semarang, Indonesia from May 26 to May 29.


2014 SEABA Under-18 Championship for Women
Malaysia won their first SEABA Under-18 title after sweeping the tournament and defeating Singapore in the finals, 68–55.


2014 SEAT León Eurocup
The 2014 SEAT León Eurocup was the fourth season of the SEAT León Eurocup, and the first since 2010. The season was contested over six race meetings – with two races at each meeting – starting on 3 May at the Nürburgring and concluding on 2 November at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.


2014 SEAT León Eurocup
Baporo Motorsport drivers were able to take the top two places in the drivers' championship, with Pol Rosell taking the championship after a second-place finish in the first race at the final round of the season. Rosell achieved six podium finishes during the season, with only one win at the Salzburgring, but only missed the points on two occasions. His team-mate Manuel Gião also scored points in ten races, taking five podium finishes and two victories, coming at Monza and at the final round.


2014 SEAT León Eurocup
Gião's final round victory allowed him to overtake Julien Briché, driving for his eponymous JSB Compétition team, for the runner-up position. Briché won races at Spa-Francorchamps and Monza, but finished fewer races. Stefano Comini and Stian Paulsen each won three races during the season, but runs of non-scoring races each cost them a shot at the championship, while the only other race winner was Ferenc Ficza, who won at Silverstone.


2014 SEAT León Eurocup, Race calendar and results
The series supported the Euroformula Open and International GT Open championships at all events except the Salzburgring, where the Eurocup was part of the support package for the World Touring Car Championship, at the FIA WTCC Race of Austria.


2014 SEC Championship Game
The 2014 SEC Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 6, 2014, in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, and determined the 2014 football champion of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game was played between Western Division Champion Alabama and Eastern Division Champion Missouri. Missouri was the designated home team, and the game was televised by CBS for the fourteenth straight year. In the game, Alabama defeated Missouri 42–13 and captured their 24th SEC football championship.


2014 SEC Championship Game, Notes
The winner of the SEC Championship Game had competed in the last 8 BCS National Championship games, posting a 6–2 record. This was the inaugural season of the College Football Playoff, replacing the Bowl Championship Series. The winner of the game, if not selected for the playoff, would normally have played in the Sugar Bowl. However, because that year's Sugar Bowl was to host a national semifinal playoff game, the team would be sent to either the Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl, or the Fiesta Bowl.


2014 SEC Championship Game, Teams, Alabama
The Tide began their season with a 4–0 start before being upset by No. 11 Ole Miss on October 4. Since then, they won their last seven games, including knocking off No. 1 Mississippi State. Alabama closed out the regular season with a 55–44 win over No. 15 Auburn to avenge last year's loss, and finished 7–1 in conference play, 11–1 overall. The Crimson Tide are entering their 9th SEC Championship Game, having won in their last two appearances (and eventually the BCS National Championship Game), and have a 4–4 overall record in the game. Alabama was able to clinch the Western Division on November 29 prior to the Iron Bowl game kicking off, as Ole Miss defeated Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl to drop Mississippi State to 6–2 in SEC play.


2014 SEC Championship Game, Teams, Missouri
The Tigers got off to 4–2 start to open the year, suffering early home losses against Indiana and No. 13 Georgia. The Tigers then won six consecutive games to finish the regular season with a 7–1 conference record, and 10–2 overall record. The Tigers are making their second straight appearance in the SEC Championship Game; last year's team fell to eventual national runner-up Auburn 42–59. The Tigers were able to clinch the Eastern Division after defeating Arkansas on November 28.


2014 SEC Championship Game, Game summary
Alabama scored on the game's opening drive to take a quick 7–0 lead, and a long touchdown pass from quarterback Blake Sims to receiver DeAndrew White early in the second quarter extended the lead to 14–0. Missouri's offense pieced together a response, but the drive fizzled out and ended in a field goal. Another Bama touchdown late in the quarter gave the Crimson Tide a 21–3 halftime lead. Missouri fought their way back into the game in the third quarter, ripping off 10 points to cut the Alabama lead to 8.


2014 SEC Championship Game, Game summary
Unfortunately for the Tigers, they would fail to score for the remainder of the game, as Alabama scored three unanswered touchdowns to secure a 42–13 victory. The win gave Alabama its 24th SEC Championship, Sims set an SEC Championship Game record for completion percentage, and wide receiver Amari Cooper set both the SEC record for most receptions in a single season and the record for most receptions in the SEC Championship Game.


2014 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) held from March 12–16, 2014 in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome. The tournament winner, Florida, received the SEC's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA men's basketball tournament. However, like most major NCAA Division I conference tournaments, the SEC Tournament does not determine the official conference champion, since the SEC has awarded its men's basketball championship to the team or teams with the best regular season record since the 1950–51 season. Florida, the #1 seed, beat #2 seed Kentucky in the championship game 61–60, with Florida stopping Kentucky from making a last second game-winning shot.


2014 SEC Softball Tournament
The 2014 SEC Softball tournament was May 7 through 10th at Carolina Softball stadium in Columbia, SC. Georgia ended up winning their first SEC Softball Tournament title over Kentucky.


2014 SEC Softball Tournament, Tournament
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2014 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 Southeastern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC), beginning on March 5, 2014, and ending on March 9, 2014 in Duluth, Georgia, at the Arena at Gwinnett Center. While it determined the SEC's representative in the NCAA Tournament, it did not determine the official SEC champion; the conference has awarded its official championship solely on the basis of regular-season record since the 1985–86 season.


2014 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament, Format
Although the SEC expanded to 14 members with the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M in July 2012, this was the first SEC women's tournament to feature 14 teams. Ole Miss did not participate in the 2013 tournament; it self-imposed a postseason ban for the 2012–13 season after revelations of potential major NCAA rules violations.


2014 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament, Format
The teams seeded 1–4 received a double-bye to the quarterfinals, and the teams seeded 5–10 received a single-bye to the second round. The remaining four teams played in the first round.


2014 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament, Schedule
SPSO games air across the SEC Region on FSN affiliates, including FSSW, and FSMW. The games rotate between the main channel and Plus affiliates. The games are also simulcast outside SEC territories on ESPN3. Next year the majority of the games will move to SEC Network.


2014 SFL season
The 2014 Southern Football League (SFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged across Southern Tasmania, Australia, over eighteen roster rounds and six finals series matches between 11 April and 13 September 2014.


2014 SFL season
The competition's major sponsor for the season was Worksafe Tasmania, Boag's Draught and Telstra.


2014 SFL season
From this season the Hobart Football Club, who had previously participated in the league from 1998-2008 rejoined the SFL after five seasons of participation in the Tasmanian State League. With AFL Tasmania's decision to issue only one licence for a club to participate in the TSL from inner-city Hobart from 2014 onwards, the sport's governing body attempted to force a merger of Hobart and North Hobart Football Clubs to participate as Hobart City in the TSL. Hobart Football Club's members voted against the proposal in favour of rejoining the SFL and were duly accepted back into the competition.


2014 SFL season
North Hobart also attempted to seek a return to the league but were advised that they would be unlikely to be accepted.


2014 SFL season
As a prerequisite of rejoining the SFL, Hobart were banned from seeking the recruitment of other players within the league for a period of twelve months, with almost their entire senior list seeking to remain playing at state league level, the Tigers had only two players on the training track in the pre-season and after a crisis meeting in which the club was only two days away from going out of business, Hobart were able to garner enough players in order to field a senior and reserve grade side for the season.


2014 SFL season, Participating Clubs, SFL Reserves Grand Final
New Norfolk 11.9 (75) d Claremont 10.5 (65) at KGV Football Park


2014 SFL season, Participating Clubs, SFL Under-18's Grand Final
Dodges Ferry 11.4 (70) d New Norfolk 9.11 (65) at KGV Football Park


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 1
(Friday, 11 & Saturday, 12 April 2014) Lindisfarne 20.15 (135) d Hobart 5.12 (42) at TCA Ground (Night). *  Sorell 16.11 (107) d Cygnet 12.4 (76) at Cygnet Oval. East Coast 19.10 (124) d Brighton 9.10 (64) at Pontville Oval. Dodges Ferry 14.7 (91) d Huonville Lions 12.13 (85) at Huonville Recreation Ground. Claremont 15.12 (102) d New Norfolk 9.8 (62) at Abbotsfield Park (Night).


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 1
* Notes: Lindisfarne's home fixture against Hobart was switched to the TCA Ground and played on the Friday evening due to Anzac Park being made unavailable by Clarence City Council two days prior to the match. Claremont's home fixture against New Norfolk was played on the Saturday evening under lights for the first time.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 2
(Friday, 18 & Saturday, 19 April 2014) Hobart 14.20 (104) d Cygnet 10.11 (71) at TCA Ground (Good Friday). Claremont 15.17 (107) d Brighton 10.5 (65) at Pontville Oval (Good Friday). New Norfolk 29.17 (191) d Huonville Lions 6.8 (44) at Huonville Recreation Ground (Good Friday). Dodges Ferry 11.18 (84) d Sorell 7.10 (52) at Shark Park. East Coast 15.15 (105) d Lindisfarne 11.11 (77) at Triabunna Recreation Ground.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 3
(Saturday, 26 April 2014) Hobart 13.7 (85) d Sorell 11.9 (75) at Pembroke Park. East Coast 10.18 (78) d Cygnet 4.6 (30) at Kermandie Oval. * New Norfolk 18.21 (129) d Brighton 3.6 (24) at Boyer Oval. Claremont 16.13 (109) d Dodges Ferry 4.1 (25) at Abbotsfield Park. Lindisfarne 20.22 (142) d Huonville Lions 4.9 (33) at Anzac Park. Note: Cygnet played their home fixture at Kermandie Oval, the former home of Kermandie Football Club.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 4
(Saturday, 3 May 2014) New Norfolk 33.21 (219) d Cygnet 6.7 (43) at Boyer Oval. Lindisfarne 15.15 (105) d Sorell 6.10 (46) at Pembroke Park. Dodges Ferry 14.10 (94) d Brighton 8.11 (59) at Pontville Oval. East Coast 19.12 (126) d Huonville Lions 5.6 (36) at Lauderdale Oval. Claremont 21.17 (143) d Hobart 8.10 (58) at Abbotsfield Park (Night).


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 5
(Saturday, 10 May 2014) New Norfolk 15.15 (105) d Lindisfarne 12.10 (82) at Anzac Park. Claremont 25.12 (162) d Cygnet 8.8 (56) at Cygnet Oval. Brighton 12.18 (90) d Sorell 7.10 (52) at Pontville Oval. Huonville Lions 14.20 (104) d Hobart 9.12 (66) at Huonville Recreation Ground. Dodges Ferry 12.10 (82) d East Coast 10.15 (75) at Triabunna Recreation Ground.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 6
(Saturday, 17 May 2014) Brighton 15.18 (108) d Hobart 11.14 (80) at TCA Ground. Claremont 11.12 (78) d Lindisfarne 10.9 (69) at Abbotsfield Park. New Norfolk 15.17 (107) d East Coast 9.10 (64) at Boyer Oval. Dodges Ferry 24.27 (171) d Cygnet 6.7 (43) at Shark Park. Huonville Lions 12.9 (81) d Sorell 6.10 (46) at Pembroke Park.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 7
(Saturday, 24 May 2014) East Coast 19.22 (136) d Hobart 11.14 (80) at Lauderdale Oval. Lindisfarne 10.15 (75) d Brighton 8.15 (63) at Pontville Oval. Cygnet 11.18 (84) d Huonville Lions 8.7 (55) at Cygnet Oval. Claremont 19.18 (132) d Sorell 13.5 (83) at Pembroke Park. New Norfolk 26.14 (170) d Dodges Ferry 7.16 (58) at Shark Park.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 8
(Saturday, 31 May 2014) Dodges Ferry 19.14 (128) d Hobart 8.6 (54) at TCA Ground. New Norfolk 22.25 (157) d Sorell 4.6 (30) at Pembroke Park. Lindisfarne 30.15 (195) d Cygnet 8.4 (52) at Anzac Park. Claremont 24.13 (157) d East Coast 9.5 (59) at Abbotsfield Park. Brighton 13.21 (99) d Huonville Lions 5.8 (38) at Pontville Oval.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 9
(Saturday, 14 June 2014) New Norfolk 28.19 (187) d Hobart 3.3 (21) at Boyer Oval. Brighton 15.16 (106) d Cygnet 9.9 (63) at Cygnet Oval. Lindisfarne 14.13 (97) d Dodges Ferry 11.8 (74) at Anzac Park. East Coast 17.14 (116) d Sorell 11.11 (77) at Triabunna Recreation Ground. Claremont 35.32 (242) d Huonville Lions 5.3 (33) at Huonville Recreation Ground.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 10
(Saturday, 21 June 2014) New Norfolk 17.20 (122) d Claremont 7.7 (49) at Boyer Oval. Lindisfarne 18.16 (124) d Hobart 6.13 (49) at Anzac Park. East Coast 17.8 (110) d Brighton 15.10 (100) at Lauderdale Oval. Sorell 20.19 (139) d Cygnet 9.10 (64) at Pembroke Park. Dodges Ferry 22.21 (153) d Huonville Lions 5.7 (37) at Shark Park.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 11
(Saturday, 28 June 2014) Hobart 16.5 (101) d Cygnet 11.18 (84) at Cygnet Oval. Dodges Ferry 10.11 (71) d Sorell 9.13 (67) at Pembroke Park. Lindisfarne 14.16 (100) d East Coast 15.9 (99) at Anzac Park. Claremont 22.16 (148) d Brighton 9.8 (62) at Abbotsfield Park. New Norfolk 32.22 (214) d Huonville Lions 4.3 (27) at Boyer Oval.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 12
(Saturday, 5 July 2014) New Norfolk 29.19 (193) d Brighton 6.8 (44) at Pontville Oval. Claremont 23.14 (152) d Dodges Ferry 6.7 (43) at Shark Park. Sorell 18.8 (116) d Hobart 11.9 (75) at TCA Ground. Lindisfarne 22.23 (155) d Huonville Lions 9.2 (56) at Huonville Recreation Ground. East Coast 15.27 (117) d Cygnet 10.13 (73) at Triabunna Recreation Ground.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 13
(Saturday, 12 July 2014) Claremont 38.27 (255) d Hobart 1.0 (6) at TCA Ground. * New Norfolk 39.23 (257) d Cygnet 1.2 (8) at Cygnet Oval. * Lindisfarne 16.23 (119) d Sorell 3.5 (23) at Anzac Park. Dodges Ferry 8.16 (64) d Brighton 4.8 (32) at Pontville Oval. East Coast 16.8 (104) d Huonville Lions 10.12 (72) at Huonville Recreation Ground. Note: This round saw both Hobart and Cygnet Football Club's greatest ever losses and lowest ever scores in SFL football.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 14
(Saturday, 19 July 2014) New Norfolk 17.14 (116) d Lindisfarne 7.15 (57) at Boyer Oval. Claremont 32.12 (204) d Cygnet 4.10 (34) at Abbotsfield Park. Brighton 15.11 (101) d Sorell 5.12 (42) at Pembroke Park. Hobart 20.13 (133) d Huonville Lions 11.8 (74) at TCA Ground. East Coast 21.12 (138) d Dodges Ferry 5.10 (40) at Shark Park.


2014 SFL season, 2014 SFL Ladder, Round 15
(Saturday, 26 July 2014) New Norfolk 22.13 (145) d East Coast 11.4 (70) at Lauderdale Oval. Claremont 19.20 (134) d Lindisfarne 7.7 (49) at Anzac Park. Brighton 23.16 (154) d Hobart 7.8 (50) at Pontville Oval. Dodges Ferry 13.9 (87) d Cygnet 3.8 (26) at Kermandie Oval. * Sorell 18.21 (129) d Huonville Lions 6.10 (46) at Huonville Recreation Ground. Note: Cygnet played their home fixture at Kermandie Oval, the former home of Kermandie Football Club.