2014 Tippeligaen, Teams
The league was contested by 16 teams: the best 13 teams of the 2013 season, and the 14th-placed Sarpsborg 08 who won the relegation-playoffs against Ranheim, in addition to two promoted teams from 1. divisjon. The promoted teams were Bodø/Glimt and Stabæk, returning to the top flight after an absence of four years and one season respectively. They replaced Tromsø (after an eleven-year spell in Eliteserien) and Hønefoss (relegated after two seasons presence).


2014 Tippeligaen, Relegation play-offs
The 14th-placed team, Brann, took part in a two-legged play-off against Mjøndalen, the winners of the 2014 1. divisjon promotion play-offs, to decide who would play in the 2015 Tippeligaen.


2014 Tippeligaen, Relegation play-offs
Mjøndalen won 4–1 on aggregate and gained promotion to the 2015 Tippeligaen; Brann were relegated to the 1. divisjon.


2014 Tipperary County Council election
A Tipperary County Council election was held in Ireland on 23 May 2014 as part of that year's local elections. Forty councillors were elected from a field of 85 candidates for a five-year term of office from five local electoral areas by proportional representation with a single transferable vote.


2014 Tipperary Senior Football Championship
The 2014 Tipperary Senior Football Championship began in the summer of 2014. Loughmore-Castleiney were the defending champions after winning their 12th title in 2013.


2014 Tipperary Senior Football Championship
The final in front of a crowd of 1,550 between Loughmore Castleiney and Cahir which was played on 21 December in Cashel and finished in a draw with the replay fixed for the 26 December. Cian Hennessy's scored the equalising point for Loughmore in the final minute after Benny Hickey had scored from a free in the 54th minute to put Cahir in front. Cahir had led 1-6 to 2-2 at half time.


2014 Tipperary Senior Football Championship
Loughmore Castleiney defeated Cahir by 0-9 to 2-2 in the replay on 26 December.


2014 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
The 2014 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 124th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887. The championship began on 12 April 2014 and ended on 2 November 2014.


2014 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
Loughmore-Castleiney were the defending champions. Thurles Sarsfields won the title following a 2-22 to 3-11 defeat of Loughmore-Castleiney in the final.


2014 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship, Format
The 2014 championship saw a restructuring of the format, with teams graded based on their 2013 Championship performance. 32 teams contested the championship, with teams split into Roinn I and Roinn II.


2014 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship, Format, Roinn I
In this section sixteen teams were divided into four groups of four. One team from each seeding was chosen per group.


2014 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship, Format, Roinn I
The top two teams in each group qualify for the last sixteen. The bottom teams are assigned to Roinn II for the 2015 championship.


2014 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship, Format, Roinn II
In this section sixteen teams were divided into four groups of four. One team from each seeding was chosen per group.


2014 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship, Format, Roinn II
The top team in each group qualifies for the last sixteen and are also promoted to Roinn I for 2015. Two out of the last placed teams in each group will be contest the relegation section.


2014 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship, Format, Divisional championship
Each Tipperary divisional championship in 2014 was operated on a knock-out plus a loser’s group format. The four divisional champions will compete in the last sixteen. If a divisional champion also wins Roinn I or Roinn II then the next highest-ranked team progresses.


2014 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship, Format, Last sixteen
The last sixteen of the championship will feature the four divisional champions, four Roinn II group winners, four Roinn I group winners and four Roinn I second-placed teams.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season
The 2014 season was Eamon O'Shea's second year as manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season
In October 2013, Brendan Maher was named as the new Tipperary captain for 2014. A statement from the County board read as follows "Tipperary County Board is pleased to announce that the senior hurling management team have appointed Brendan Maher (Borris-Ileigh) as captain and Noel McGrath (Loughmore Castleiney) as vice captain of the Tipperary senior hurling team for 2014."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season
In December 2013, Skoda Ireland announced the extension of its sponsorship of Tipperary GAA another year. The new 2014 Tipperary strip was also unveiled which features an 1884 motif to commemorate 130 years of Tipperary GAA.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season
On 7 February Tipperary won the Waterford Crystal Cup after a 4–22 to 3–11 win against Clare in the final.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season
On 27 September, Tipperary were beaten by Kilkenny in the All-Ireland Final on a 2-17 to 2-14 scoreline after the initial match had finished in a draw three weeks earlier.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season
It was Kilkenny's 35th title and also the fifth time that they have beaten Tipperary in the last six years of the Championship.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Friendly Games
On 7 December 2013, Tipperary defeated Westmeath in The Ragg by 3–20 to 0–13, with two goals from Patrick Maher and one from Conor Kenny. Wexford were defeated in Clonmel by 0–17 to 1–9 on 15 December. They then beat UCC on 4 January  in Dr. Morris Park by 6–25 to 0–9. On 5 January, Tipperary defeated Offaly by 3–18 to 1–10 in Moneygall. Tipperary led by 2–9 to 0–6 at half-time with the goals coming from Conor Kenny and David Collins. John O’Dwyer scored Tipperary's third goal with five minutes remaining in the match.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 Waterford Crystal Cup, Summary
Tipperary opened their season with a 3–20 to 0–5 win against LIT in Nenagh in the preliminary round of the 2014 Waterford Crystal Cup on 12 January. Playing against the wind, Tipperary lead 2–8 to 0–1 after the first-half with Shane Bourke scoring a goal in the 5th minute and then Seamus Callanan hit a second goal from a penalty after 16 minutes. Lar Corbett got the third goal with just a few minutes left in the game.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 Waterford Crystal Cup, Summary
Tipperary faced holders Clare in the final for the third consecutive year on Friday 7 February in Limerick and won on a 4-22 to 3-11 scoreline. Michael Heffernan scored Tipperary's first-half goal with Denis Maher scoring two in the second-half after Conor Kenny had netted in the 38th minute. Clare had a 3-05 to 1-10 lead at half time but were outscored by 0-06 to 3-12 in the second half. Tipperary were captained in the final by James Woodlock.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 Waterford Crystal Cup, Results
D Gleeson  C Barrett, P Stapleton, J Peters  S McGrath, P Maher, B Maher  J Woodlock, R Maher  D Collins, S Callanan, C Kenny  S Bourke, D Maher, J O’Dwyer.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 Waterford Crystal Cup, Results
D Egan  C Bartlett, C O’Mahony, J Peters  S McGrath, B Maher, C O’Brien  M Cahill, J Woodlock  D Maher, D Collins, Patrick B Maher  E Kelly, P Murphy, C Kenny


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 Waterford Crystal Cup, Results
D Egan  C O’Brien, T Stapleton, J Peters  S McGrath, P Heffernan, R Maher  M Cahill, D Collins  K Bergin, M Heffernan, S Callanan  R Gleeson, J O’Dwyer, K Morris


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Squad
The Tipperary squad for the group stages of the National Hurling League was as follows,Cathal Barrett (Holycross-Ballycahill), James Barry (Upperchurch-Drombane), Kieran Bergin (Killenaule), Michael Cahill (Thurles Sarsfields), Seamus Callanan (Drom & Inch), Lar Corbett (Thurles Sarsfields), Darragh Egan (Kildangan), Darren Gleeson (Portroe), Tomas Hamill (Killea), Eoin Kelly (Mullinahone), Conor Kenny (Borris-Ileigh), Brendan Maher (Borris-Ileigh – Captain), Denis Maher (Thurles Sarsfields), Padraic Maher (Thurles Sarsfields), Patrick Maher (Lorrha-Dorrha), Ronan Maher (Thurles Sarsfields), Noel McGrath (Loughmore-Castleiney), Shane McGrath (Ballinahinch), Liam McGrath (Loughmore-Castleiney), Paddy Murphy (Nenagh Éire Óg), Conor O Brien (Éire Óg Annacarty), John O’Dwyer (Killenaule), Conor O’Mahony (Newport), Jason Forde (Silvermines), Paddy Stapleton (Borris-Ileigh), James Woodlock (Drom & Inch)


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
Tipperary began their league campaign against Waterford on Saturday 15 February at Semple Stadium. They won the match by 2–13 to 0–16 with second-half goals coming from Seamus Callanan and goalkeeper Darren Gleeson after his long-range free drifted all the way into the Waterford net.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
A week later on 23 February, Tipperary traveled to Nowlan Park to face Kilkenny in round 2 of the league. Within 15 minutes of the throw-in they had three goals scored, one each from the full-forward trio of Noel McGrath, Jason Forde and Seamus Callanan. Tipperary had a 10 pint lead late in the first half and a 6-point lead at half time while playing with the wind on a 4-9 to 2-9 scoreline. Séamus Callanan scored 3-6 in the game but Kilkenny ran out winners by 6 points.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
In round 3 of the league on 9 March, Tipperary were defeated by Clare on a 0-20 to 4-15 scoreline at Semple Stadium. Clare forward Conor McGrath scored two goals in the first half and one in the second with Clare having a 3-7 to 0-8 lead at half time.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
On 16 March, Tipperary lost their third league game in a row after a 1-19 to 3-16 defeat to Galway at Pearse Stadium. Three goals before half-time laid the foundation for a Galway win which puts Tipperary into relegation trouble. Galway had a 3-08 to 0-09 lead at half time.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
On 23 March, Tipperary defeated Dublin by 1-19 to 0-19 in their final divisional game to qualify for the quarter-finals. Tipperary needed to win by 3 points to have a chance of making the quarter finals at the expense of Dublin and Waterford. With Tipperary leading by 3 points in the last seconds of the game, Dublin player Niall McMorrow sent in a low ball from the 45 metre line into the box instead of going for the point which would have qualified Dublin for the quarter finals.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
A point by sub Ronan Maher in the 72nd minute gave Tipperary the required advantage of 3 points to qualify for a quarter-final against Cork. Speaking after the game, Tipperary manager Eamon O'Shea was happy to get the win saying ""We probably were missing one third of our team who you think might be live contenders for championship, today. That's five or six quality players – we've been missing players all through the league here and there, but our form still wasn't good. I'm not trying to take away from the common perception, which is right.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
We just couldn't seem to get rhythm in our play. The positive thing about this week and even last week before the Galway game ... this is why I was really annoyed that we didn't play to our potential last week ... because we've had two or three weeks of really good training, really good work. I don't disagree that our performances went through bad patches and I wouldn't criticise anybody for the criticism. This is life. Sometimes I think Tipp are a team that have to have rhythm."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
In the league quarter-final on 30 March at Semple Stadium, Tipperary defeated Cork by 3-25 to 4-19. Tipperary scored 2-4 without reply in the opening eight minutes, Denis Maher with the first goal inside a minute and corner-forward Niall O’Meara with the second when he doubled on a miss-hit shot by James Woodlock. Cork recovered to lead by two points at half time on a 3-11 to 3-9 scoreline. Cork goalkeeper Anthony Nash had a late free saved which would have sent the game into extra-time but Tipperary held on to win by three points.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
On 20 April, Tipperary beat Clare at the Gaelic Grounds to set up a hurling League final against Kilkenny for the second year in a row. Two goals from Patrick Maher and a haul of 0-12 from Seamus Callanan saw Tipperary win in the end by seven points. Tipperary lead by seven-points at half time.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
Tipperary made it to the league final in spite of losing three of their opening four league games and conceding 12 goals and 67 points. The last time that Tipperary beat Kilkenny in a league final was in 1968.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Summary
In the final played on 4 May at Semple Stadium, Kilkenny won on a 2-25 1-27 scoreline with TJ Reid getting the winning score in the last minute after extra-time. Tipperary had led by 1-11 to 1-9 at half time, the Tipperary goal coming from John O'Dwyer when he connected with Noel McGrath's sideline cut to touch the ball to the net from the edge of the square. The game finished in a draw at 2-17 to 1-20 after 70 minutes with injury time points for Tipperary from Shane Bourke and Kieran Bergin sending the game to extra time. Both goals for Kilkenny came from penalties and both scored by TJ Reid and the sides were level 11 times.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Results
D Gleeson  C Barrett, P Stapleton, M Cahill  S McGrath, T Hamill, T Stapleton  B Maher (c), J Woodlock  P Murphy, N McGrath, K Bergin  S Bourke, J O’Dwyer, J Forde


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Results
Darren Gleeson  Michael Cahill, Paddy Stapleton, Cathal Barrett  Brendan Maher (c), Conor O’Mahony, Padraic Maher  Shane McGrath, James Woodlock  Noel McGrath, John O’Dwyer, Patrick Maher  Conor Kenny, Seamus Callanan, Micheal Heffernan


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Results
D Egan  P Stapleton, C O’Mahony, C Barrett  M Cahill, B Maher (c), C O’Brien  K Bergin, S McGrath  J O’Dwyer, N McGrath, P Murphy  J Forde, S Callanan, P Maher


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 National Hurling League, Results
D Gleeson  C Barrett, Pádraic Maher, M Cahill  J Barry, B Maher, C O’Mahony  K Bergin, J Woodlock  D Maher, Patrick Maher, J O’Dwyer  N McGrath, S Callanan, N O’Meara


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship
Tipperary faced Limerick in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship semi-final on 1 June at Semple Stadium. Speaking before the match against Limerick, Tipperary manager  Eamon O'Shea said "There are probably nine teams that can win the All-Ireland,It's very competitive – there's a great equality among teams. In Munster, any one of the five could have a shot at it. I think Clare are slightly ahead because they had the confidence of playing last year and playing really well, and having a system that's really good and that they know how to play."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship
Cathal Barrett, James Barry and Niall O'Meara were all named in the starting line-up to make his first championship appearance for Tipperary. Denis Maher also came on in the 62nd minute of the game to make his championship debut. Limerick won the game on a 2-18 to 2-16 scoreline. With Tipperary leading by three points, Limerick's Shane Dowling scored the equalising goal in the 68th minute before substitute Thomas Ryan put Limerick a point clear in the first minute of stoppage time with Seamus Hickey landeding the insurance score at the Killinan End for a two-point win. The sides had been level at 1-8 apiece.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship
The defeat was a fourth straight championship defeat in three years since losing to Kilkenny in the 2012 All-Ireland semi-final. Speaking after the game Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea felt that Tipperary need to work on their game management, saying "I believe that we have something in the dressing room and I believe we’ll show it before the end of the season, We have a very disappointed dressing room, naturally. I don’t have any excuses either. I’m not using any excuses. We were a couple of points up and should have finished out the game.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship
We were beaten in the 70th minute, injury-time, so we’re disappointed. As the manager I am looking and saying what can we do to finish a game out where we are there or thereabouts. It is an issue. We are very close to finishing it out, but very close doesn’t mean anything in sport. There are winners and there are there are losers in sport. You are talking to the losers."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship
D Gleeson  C Barrett, Pádraic Maher, M Cahill  J Barry, B Maher, C O’Mahony  K Bergin, S McGrath  G Ryan, N McGrath, N O’Meara  J O’Dwyer, S Callanan, Patrick Maher


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Round 1
Tipperary met Galway in Round 1 of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Qualifiers on 5 July. The draw took place on RTE Radio 1's 'Morning Ireland’ programme at the RTÉ Radio Centre on 23 June. The game was broadcast by Sky Sports on 5 July with a 7.00pm throw-in.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Round 1
Ronan Maher made his championship debut starting at midfield. Tipperary secured their first championship victory since the Munster final of 2012 with a 3-25 to 4-13 win. At half-time, the sides were level at 2-9 to 1-12. Galway had a 4-12 to 1-15 lead with 20 minutes to go but Tipperary then outscored Galway by 2-10 to 0-1 in the remainder of the game. Seamus Callanan scored 3-9 with 3-1 coming from play.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Round 1
Speaking after the match Callinan said "It’s my job to score when all the boys do the hard work outside, It doesn’t work out every day but we kept trying, a few breaks came my way but the next day they will come someone else’s way and that’s how we look at it. We all try to do our best in our own patch and if we all work hard together the results will come."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Round 1
Manager Eamon O'Shea never lost hope during the game saying "I've always said that the manager takes the heat at times but the team are the thing that matter because they're the ones that go out and perform on the pitch. They're at an age where they want to express themselves and we just encourage them to express themselves. I felt at half-time that the lads were determined to do something, we knew they'd have a spell again. When you haven't lost the will to survive with the hurling we have, then things can happen. It doesn't always happen, but things can happen, and that's what I was looking at."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Round 1
An average of 34,000 viewers tuned in to watch the match on Sky Sports 3 in Ireland, which represented 2.8pc of the market share.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Round 2
The draw for the second round took place on 7 July with Tipperary drawn to face Offaly at O'Moore Park on 12 July. The game was broadcast by Sky Sports with a 7.00pm throw-in. The starting lineup  showed one change to the team that started against Galway with Kieran Bergin replacing Ronan Maher at midfield. Tipperary won the game easily by 17 points and had a 4-9 to 0-11 lead at half time.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Round 2
Manager Eamon O'Shea wasn't happy with Tipperary's performance despite their 17-point winning margin, saying "There is no guarantee on any given day that the turn-on switch will be found when you want it, One of the things at this level, you cannot afford to turn off like that because sometimes when you turn on again it is too late. Having said that they do know they need to improve. We are not happy. I don't mean that with any disrespect to winning the game, but we are not happy with our own level. Offaly brought something to the game and that should be acknowledged. They fought and were well organised. The win didn't reflect the game, it was certainly closer to a seven, eight, nine-point game." Tipperary will now go on to play Dublin in the quarter-finals on 27 July at Semple Stadium.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Quarter-final
The Tipperary team was named on 24 July and was unchanged from the win over Offaly for the game against Dublin in the quarter-final. A crowd of over 40,000 was expected at Semple Stadium for the game which was the second part of a quarter-final double header with Limerick and Wexford also meeting. Both games will be televised live on RTE. Michael Cahill's knee injury kept him out of the team with Pauric Maher starting at wing back and James Barry at full back. Cathal Barrett started at corner back with Kieran Bergin at wing back and Shane McGrath atmidfield.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Quarter-final
Tipperary won the game comfortably on a 2-23 to 0-16 scoreline to qualify for an all Ireland semi-final on 17 August against Cork at Croke Park. They had a 0-15 to 0-8 lead at half time. John O'Dwyer scored two second half goals, the first a low shot from the right after a pass from Seamus Callanan and the second from the left when he followed up after the goalkeeper saved the initial shot from Patrick Maher. He was named as the man of the match by The Sunday Game.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Quarter-final
Manager Eamon O'Shea speaking after the match said that people should reassess their estimation of the team since the defeat to Galway in the league in March, saying "We have played eight times, won six, and my belief is that we should have won the league final and we lost the game against Limerick in the last minute. I just think there needs to be a reassessment of that from commentators. When you win six games, surely it can't all be bad.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Quarter-final
The loss to Limerick was not a good result but there was a cycle where we were playing games within a range of playing well. I didn't feel we went outside of that range. We didn't play that well against Limerick - we certainly didn't finish it. I am not saying that the assessment is completely wrong. I am just saying that you need to look at the whole thing in totality because there may be a different view there."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Semi-final
Tipperary played Munster champions Cork in the semi-final at Croke Park on 17 August. It was Tipperary's first game back at Croke Park since their 18-point semi-final defeat to Kilkenny in 2012. Cork go the opening score from Alan Cadogan in the first minute, but it was the only time in the game that Cork were in front. Cork's Shane O’Neill fumbled an easy ball that allowed Seamus Callanan to fire in Tipperary's first goal in the sixth minute. At half time Tipperary had only a two-point lead on a 1-7 to 0-8 scoreline. Seamus Callanan got his second goal of the game in the 47th minute after a pass from Bonner Maher. 2-17 of Tipperary's scores came from play.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Semi-final
Speaking on the Sunday Game	highlights programme on the night of the match, former Cork hurler Donal Óg Cusack  said that in his opinion Tipperary goalkeeper Darren Gleeson gave the greatest ever display of tactical puckouts in the game saying "Darren Gleeson gave the greatest display of tactical puckouts ever seen... I want to put it on record: it was the greatest display of puckouts ever but the Cork defending was poor". Tipperary won 70% of their puckouts during the game.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Semi-final
Tipperary manager Eamon O'Shea speaking after the game said "There was a lot of talk about shoot-outs and so on and I don't think it was ever going to be a shoot-out, certainly from our end," he told us after. "But we just worked our way to the win really, that's the most pleasing aspect. That we ground out the win by working really hard. Whatever way the game would have turned, we would have won it!"


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Final
On 25 August, manager Eamon O’Shea confirmed that his squad came through the weekend's round of club championship matches without any injuries and will have a full panel to pick from for the final. Tipperary training sessions will be open to the public on 25 August and on the last training session Thursday evening 4 September. The Tipperary team will be announced by email at 9pm on 4 September. The Tipperary post-match banquet, supported by the County Board and the Tipperary Supporters Club, will be held in the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in Dublin starting at 8pm.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Final
Kilkenny manager Brian Cody speaking before the match said that what has gone before between Tipperary and Kilkenny in matches holds no value come throw-in time. Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea said that if they lost to Galway in the qualifiers it could have been the end of the road for him.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Final
The Tipperary team was named on the evening of 4 September after their last training session. The team is unchanged from the semi-final win against Cork with Michael Cahill failing to regain the number four shirt since a knee injury kept him out of the win against Dublin. Padraic Maher, though named at full-back, is expected to line out at left half-back, with James Barry going to full-back. Captain Brendan Maher is expected to start at centre-back. Five Tipperary players will be playing in their first All-Ireland final, Darren Gleeson, Cathal Barrett, James Barry, Kieran Bergin and John O’Dwyer.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Final
The Tipperary team that won the 1989 All-Ireland Final were presented to the crowd before the match to mark 25 years.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Final
The match finished in a draw for the third year in a row after no draws since the 1959 final. The final has been described my many as the greatest final in history and also the greatest hurling match in history.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Final
Tipperary had a free from 97 metres out in injury time with the scores level. John O'Dwyer took the free which was hit just wide to the right and required conformation from Hawk-eye.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Reaction
Tipperary's Pádraic Maher said that he know the injury-time attempt from John O’Dwyer was wide before being confirmed by Hawk-Eye saying "“I was standing right behind Bubbles. I stood right behind his free and I thought it was for three-quarters of the way going over the bar, but it just curled off at the finish. I didn’t even look up at the Hawk Eye because I f***ing knew it was gone wide. Excuse my language, but that’s just the ups and downs of the game. It was fantastic. It must have been some game to watch and it was great to be a part of it. It’s a big game again in three weeks’ time and we’ll just try and come out the right side of the result.”


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Reaction
Manager Eamon O'Shea was focusing on the positives after the draw saying ""I feel I was a participant in a brilliant game," "Of course you feel drained, you try to win the game right until the end, but I just felt the occasion in terms of the game was just one of those was games... "I don't know what it looked like when you're dispassionate...but I just felt it was one of those games, like in 2009 (All-Ireland Final which Kilkenny won), it was just one of those games where you felt it was just good to be there."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Reaction
O'Shea also thought that John O'Dwyer's late free had gone over the bar saying " "I felt he had a chance," I thought it was over but obviously HawkEye said no. He got a great strike on it and he was unlucky." "I'm looking forward to the next day," "When you're involved in a game like that, from my perspective, you just try and win the game right until the end. You don't get a chance to get too emotional about it so I'm just looking forward to the next day, "I thought they (Tipperary) did really well today. They worked really hard, they believed in what they were doing. We could have won it, we might have lost it because we were playing against a fantastic team."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Reaction
The final was shown live in Ireland on RTÉ One as part of The Sunday Game live programme, presented by Michael Lyster from Croke Park, with studio analysis from Cyril Farrell, Tomás Mulcahy and Ger Loughnane. Match commentary was provided by Ger Canning with analysis by Michael Duignan. The game was also shown live on Sky Sports, presented by Rachel Wyse and Brian Carney.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Reaction
Highlights of the final were shown on The Sunday Game programme which aired at 9:30pm that night on RTÉ Two and was presented by Des Cahill with analysis from Donal Óg Cusack, Liam Sheedy, and Eddie Brennan. On the man of the match award shortlist were Richie Hogan, John O'Dwyer and Cathal Barrett, with Richie Hogan winning the award.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Reaction
Tipperary remained in Dublin on the Sunday night before returning home.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Final Replay
It was announced right after the drawn match that the replay would take place on Saturday, 27 September at 5pm at Croke park.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Final Replay
Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea speaking ahead of the replay said “We just see it as another game that’s coming up and it’s a game that has to be won.” O'Shea admitted to not watching a full re-run of the drawn game saying “I don’t think I watched the full game: “I watched bits and pieces of it. Damien Young is really good on the videos, so I don’t tend to watch the games fully, I say to him can you pick out this, that and the other.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Tickets
The GAA announced on 8 September that ticket prices for the replay would be reduced with stand tickets reduced to €50 from €80 and terrace tickets priced at €25.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Referee
Offaly official Brian Gavin was named as the referee for the replay on 10 September. It will be the third time he has refereed a senior final as he did the 2011 final between the same two teams and the drawn 2013 final between Clare and Cork. Wexford's James Owens will be the standby referee with James McGrath as the other linesman and the sideline official will be Alan Kelly from Galway.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2014 All-Ireland qualifiers, Team News
Both teams for the replay were announced on 25 September with Kilkenny making three changes to the team. John Power comes in to replace Walter Walsh, Padraig Walsh comes in at wing-back in place of Joey Holden while Kieran Joyce replaces Brian Hogan. Tipperary have made no changes to their team and start with the same fifteen.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Match details (Replay), Summary
Tipperary scored the first goal of the game in the 28th minute when Lar Corbett passed to the left to Seamus Callanan who passed the ball past the goalkeeper and into the net. Tipperary were leading the game by two points at half time on a 1-7 to 0-8 scoreline. Richie Power scored a goal for Kilkenny on 59 minutes shooting low to the net after catching a high ball, which put Kilkenny four points ahead.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Match details (Replay), Summary
John Power then got a second goal four minutes later turning the ball home after an initial save from Darren Gleeson to put Kilkenny into a six-point lead. Seamus Callanan got his second goal a minute from the end of normal time shooting low to the net on the ground to leave only two between the teams. Colin Fennelly then got an injury-time point which extended Kilkenny's lead to three which is how the match finished. Kilkenny won the replay on a 2-17 to 2-14 scoreline. It was their 35th All-Ireland title and the 10th senior All-Ireland of Brian Cody’s managerial career the 10th All-Ireland of Henry Shefflin’s playing career.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Match details (Replay), Reaction
Tipperary manager Eamon O'Shea speaking after the game said "We came up to win... but I really think there are more important things... the important things are that I have a dressing room of men, who fought the battle to the end, who didn't flinch when things didn't go their way." "I have a dressing-room full of men down there who fought the battle to the end, who didn't flinch, who. . . things didn't go their way and yet the team kept going," he said.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Match details (Replay), Reaction
"You don't always win but when Tipp play now, we really try until it's no longer possible and I think they can be proud of that." he said. Speaking the day after the match, Kilkenny manager Brian Cody said that the decision to award the late free to Tipperary by referee Barry Kelly in the draw game was "criminal."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Awards
The Sunday Game team of the year was picked on 28 September, which was the night after the final replay. Tipperary had six players named in the team for 2014.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Awards
Séamus Callanan who scored 2-5 in the replay of the final against Kilkenny, scored a total of 9-50 with 9-16 coming from play to finish as the top scorer in the championship.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Awards
Tipperary had eleven players nominated for the All Stars Awards hurling team of the year which will be announced live at the awards ceremony on 24 October. The players nominated are Darren Gleeson, Cathal Barrett, Paddy Stapleton, Kieran Bergin, Brendan Maher, Padraic Maher, Shane McGrath, Patrick Maher, John O’Dwyer,  Noel McGrath, and Seamus Callanan. Seamus Callanan has also been nominated for the All Stars Hurler of the Year, with Cathal Barrett nominated for the All Stars Young Hurler of the Year award. On 24 October, seven Tipperary players were named in the 2014 All Star hurling team. Tipperary are represented by goalkeeper Darren Gleeson, half-backs, Brendan Maher and Padraic Maher, midfielder Shane McGrath and forwards John O'Dwyer, Patrick Maher and Seamus Callanan.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Awards
Cathal Barrett was also named as the All Stars Young Hurler of the Year.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Retirements
On 26 November forward John O'Brien announced his retirement from inter-county hurling. In a released statement O’Brien said "I wish to announce my retirement from the Tipperary Hurling team. It has been an honour to have represented my county at senior level since my debut in 2001. I would like to thank everyone who has supported me and made it possible for me to play, most importantly my family and friends, my club Toomevara, the management and backroom teams throughout those years which are too many to mention and also the Tipperary public.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Retirements
I have made many great friends over those years and I would like to wish the current panel and management team the very best of luck." In a statement, the Tipperary County Board thanked O’Brien saying "Tipperary County Board would like to thank John O’Brien for his great contribution to Tipperary hurling over a long number of years, having represented the county at minor, U21 and senior levels and won two All Ireland senior hurling medals as well as five Munster senior hurling medals, We wish him the very best for the future."


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, Retirements
Eoin Kelly announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 1 December 2014. Speaking to RTÉ Sport, Kelly said "Everyone has their time in the county jersey and my time has come now, I'm happy with the decision I have made in that now is the time to walk away. This season I had very limited game time and I'm also aware that Tipperary have a good up and coming team now". Kelly finished his career as the third highest scorer in championship history with a total of 21-368, in 63 senior appearances behind only Kilkenny's Henry Shefflin and Eddie Keher.


2014 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2015 Season
In October 2014, Eamon O'Shea confirmed that he will stay on for a third year as Tipperary manager. It was also confirmed that Michael Ryan will succeed Eamon O'Shea as manager on a two-year term after the conclusion of the 2015 season. Declan Fanning will also join the back-room team for 2015 as a selector.


2014 Tirreno–Adriatico
The 2014 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 49th edition of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycling stage race, often known as the Race of the Two Seas. It started on 12 March in Donoratico and ended on 18 March in San Benedetto del Tronto, and consisted of seven stages, including a team time trial to begin the race and an individual time trial to conclude it. It was the third race of the 2014 UCI World Tour season.


2014 Tirreno–Adriatico
The race was won by Spain's Alberto Contador of Tinkoff–Saxo, who took the lead after winning his second successive stage on the fifth stage – following on from a win in the race's queen stage to Cittareale – and held the lead until the finish in San Benedetto del Tronto, to become the first Spanish rider to win the race since Óscar Freire in 2005. Contador won the general classification by two minutes and five seconds over runner-up Nairo Quintana of the Movistar Team, while Contador's teammate Roman Kreuziger completed the podium, nine seconds behind Quintana and two minutes and fourteen seconds down on Contador.


2014 Tirreno–Adriatico
In the race's other classifications, Cannondale's Peter Sagan was the winner of the red jersey for the points classification, amassing the highest number of points during stages at intermediate sprints and stage finishes, and Marco Canola was the winner of the mountains classification for the Bardiani–CSF team. Quintana also won the white jersey for the young rider classification, as he was the highest placed rider born in 1989 or later, while the Ag2r–La Mondiale squad won the team classification, placing riders Jean-Christophe Péraud and Domenico Pozzovivo inside the top ten overall.


2014 Tirreno–Adriatico
The final time trial was almost irrelevant from the winner's point of view as Alberto Contador had more than two minutes in hand on next best placed rider Nairo Quintana of the Movistar Team. There were some changes further down the GC as a result of the time trial though as Jean-Christophe Péraud moved above Julián Arredondo in to 4th place and Michele Scarponi moved up to the top ten as a result of a strong ride.


2014 Tirreno–Adriatico, Teams
As Tirreno–Adriatico was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Four other squads were given wildcard places to the race, completing the 22-team peloton.


2014 Tocantins gubernatorial election
The Tocantins gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next Governor of the state of Tocantins, Brazil. If no candidate had received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election would have been held on 26 October. Governor Sandoval Cardoso ran for his first full term after becoming governor in 2014, but lost to former Governor Marcelo Miranda in the first round.


2014 Tokyo Marathon
The 2014 Tokyo Marathon (Japanese: 東京マラソン 2014) was the eighth edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo, Japan and was held on Sunday, 23 February. An IAAF Gold Label Road Race, it was the first World Marathon Majors event to be held that year and represented the second occasion that the Tokyo race was part of the elite-level marathon series.


2014 Tokyo Marathon
Both elite race winners set new course records: Dickson Chumba ran a men's record of 2:05:42 and Tirfi Tsegaye's run of 2:22:23 was a women's record.


2014 Tokyo Marathon, Pre-race build up
Following on from the Tokyo Marathon's induction into the World Marathon Majors circuit, high calibre and international fields were invited for the men's and women's elite races. In the men's race, invitees included Tadese Tola (2013 world medallist), Abel Kirui (a two-time world champion), Peter Some (2013 Paris Marathon winner), Dickson Chumba (2013 Eindhoven Marathon winner), and former Tokyo champion Michael Kipyego. In total, seven of the invited men's field had personal bests faster than two hours and six minutes. Arata Fujiwara was the most prominent domestic starter.


2014 Tokyo Marathon, Pre-race build up
In the women's division, Lucy Wangui Kabuu was the fastest entrant with her best of 2:19:34 hours. Second fastest was Japan's Yoko Shibui (2:19:41) although the 35-year-old was not expected to reach her past performance. A group of Ethiopian women were among the other prominent entrants, including Tirfi Tsegaye, Atsede Baysa, Birhane Dibaba and Merima Mohammed.


2014 Tokyo Marathon, Results
Dickson Chumba of Kenya won the men's race in a course record time of 2:05:42 hours. This also made it the fastest time ever recorded in the city, bettering Gert Thys's record of 2:06:33 set at the defunct Tokyo International Marathon. In the women's race, Ethiopia's Tirfi Tsegaye topped the podium with a course record of 2:22:23 hours – an improvement of over three minutes on the previous record. The wheelchair races had mainly domestic entrants and Hiroyuki Yamamoto and Wakako Tsuchida were the best of the men's and women's divisions, respectively.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election
The 2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election took place on February 9, 2014 to replace outgoing Governor Naoki Inose, who resigned effective December 24, 2013. Yōichi Masuzoe was declared the winner in exit polling, with a substantial lead over the fifteen other candidates. His final tally was 2,112,979 votes (42.86%), with his two closest competitors Morihiro Hosokawa and Kenji Utsunomiya failing to break the 20% mark. Total turnout was 4,930,251 (46.14%), significantly lower than the 62.6% turnout in the 2012 election.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Background
Tokyo governor Naoki Inose abruptly resigned in December 2013 following a month-long investigation into a political funds scandal. His resignation came in the midst of various preparations for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which had been awarded to Tokyo earlier in the year, including the formation of an organization committee (due by February 2014), the allocation of 10.3 billion yen in Olympics-related funding, and negotiation with the national government over the construction of the new National Olympic Stadium.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Background
The election campaign was set to officially begin on January 23, 2014 and was one of three critical electoral tests for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in early 2014, along with the January 19 mayoral election in Nago, Okinawa (widely viewed as a referendum on the relocation plan of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma), in which the incumbent mayor, who is against the plan, was re-elected, and the late February gubernatorial election in Yamaguchi Prefecture.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Background
Yoichi Masuzoe was initially seen as the strongest candidate in the race due to his popularity and support from the LDP. In mid-January, former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa emerged as a second strong candidate with the backing of former LDP Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi, with his platform focusing on opposition to the restart of nuclear power generation in Japan. Prime Minister Shinzō Abe stated his concern that the campaign would focus on the nuclear issue at the expense of other issues.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Background
Masuzoe, who supported a gradual phase-out of nuclear power, stated that "choosing the Tokyo governor based (solely) on whether they favor or oppose nuclear power seems odd." Masuzoe was endorsed by the LDP and Komeito, while Hosokawa was endorsed by the Democratic Party of Japan, People's Life Party and Unity Party (Japan), and the Social Democratic Party of Japan and Japanese Communist Party endorsed former Japan Federation of Bar Associations president Kenji Utsunomiya.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Background
There were 10.8 million eligible voters, a new all-time high. Of these, 7.4 million lived in special wards, 3.3 million in cities, less than 0.1 million in the towns and villages in West Tama and on the islands.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Background
In the first three days of early voting (possible from the day after the official campaign start), turnout increased tenfold compared to the same period in the previous gubernatorial election of 2012; but in 2012, the national House of Representatives election was held together with the gubernatorial election, and the legal campaign period for Representatives elections is twelve days – five days less than in elections for prefectural governors, so many early voters in 2012 waited until the official start of the lower house campaign to cast their ballots in both elections.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Background
Compared to the 2011 gubernatorial election when no national election was held simultaneously, turnout in the first three days of early voting increased by 60%. A blizzard struck eastern Japan on the day before the election, bringing the most snow seen in Tokyo in two decades. Residual snow on the streets impacted voter turnout on election day.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Background
On the remote island of Haha-jima in Ogasawara village, the election was held one day earlier than in the rest of Tokyo (kuriage-tōhyō), i.e. the election day is February 8.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Polling
A poll conducted shortly after Hosokawa's announcement, as reported by the Sankei-affiliated news site ZAKZAK, showed that 40% of Tokyo voters supported Masuzoe, 16% supported Hosokawa, 15% supported Utsunomiya and 6% supported Tamogami. Masuzoe maintained the lead over Hosokawa, Utsunomiya and Tamogami in four separate polls conducted January 23–24 by Mainichi Shimbun, Kyodo News, Sankei Shimbun and Fuji Television. This ranking remained unchanged in a February 1–2 polling by Mainichi, although 30% of voters remained undecided. These outlets refrained from disclosing actual poll numbers in order to comply with Japanese election laws.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Polling
An electoral simulation by the LDP in January, as reported by the weekly magazine Shukan Post, resulted in 42% voting for Hosokawa, 39% for Masuzoe, 10% for Utsunomiya and 7% for Tamogami, assuming a typical turnout of their respective supporting bases (around 55% of the total electorate), with the caveat that a large turnout by anti-nuclear supporters could tip the balance further against Masuzoe.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Result
Kenji Himeji, Masaichi Igarashi, Hiroshi Kaneko, Chikanori Matsuyama, Tomoharu Nakagawa, Hisao Naito, Takashi Negami, Eiichi Sato and Tatsuo Suzuki also appeared on the ballot but won less than 5,000 votes each. 1.24% of votes were invalid.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Result
Exit polls by the Asahi Shimbun found that Masuzoe was the most popular candidate in each age segment but had particularly strong support from elderly voters, winning 55% of voters in the 70+ age range versus 36% of voters in their twenties and 38% of voters in their thirties. Tamogami polled strongest among voters in their twenties, gaining 24% of the vote in this age range, but his support among voters in the 60+ age range was in single digits. Hosokawa was second-ranked among voters in their forties, fifties and sixties while Utsunomiya was second-ranked among voters in their thirties and seventies.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Result
Voter turnout was highest in the remote island villages of Mikurajima (80.16%) and Aogashima (75.00%), and lowest in the western suburb of Mizuho (35.61%).


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Candidates
There were sixteen candidates in the race, fifteen of whom ran as independents (Mac Akasaka was the only candidate claiming a party affiliation).


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Candidates, Others considered to be candidates
The LDP considered a number of candidates prior to endorsing Masuzoe, conducting a private telephone poll in December 2013 which named Masuzoe, former TV comedian and Miyazaki Prefecture governor Hideo Higashikokubaru and LDP legislators Nobuteru Ishihara, Satsuki Katayama, Yuriko Koike and Tamayo Marukawa. Higashikokubaru came in second to Masuzoe, but on January 10 he stated that he had "2,000%" "no scheme, plan, or intention" to run.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Candidates, Others considered to be candidates
Hakubun Shimomura and Seiko Hashimoto were also rumored to be potential LDP candidates, but were excluded from consideration by the party due to existing duties related to the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2014 Winter Olympics respectively. Akira Ikegami, a television journalist, was also included in the LDP poll, but said that he had no interest in running and that he had already agreed to cover the election for the Tokyo MX television station. Hiroshi Sato, former Vice Governor of Tokyo, was approached by LDP lawmakers in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly but declined to run.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Candidates, Others considered to be candidates
Saburō Kawabuchi, former head coach of the Japan national football team, was reported in December 2013 to be a compromise candidate between Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and former Governor Shintaro Ishihara, with his athletic background being viewed as an advantage in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics. Abe and Ishihara eventually endorsed Masuzoe and Tamogami respectively.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Candidates, Others considered to be candidates
The DPJ approached baseball player Atsuya Furuta and journalist Shuntaro Torigoe, both of whom refused to run. Renhō Murata, former State Minister of Government Revitalization, was widely viewed as a likely candidate from the DPJ.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Candidates, Others considered to be candidates
Antonio Inoki, a professional wrestler and Diet member, was reportedly considering announcing his candidacy. He had been suspended from the Japan Restoration Party following an unauthorized November 2013 visit to North Korea, and was reportedly planning to decide whether to resign from the Diet to run for governor following his return from a second visit to North Korea in January 2014.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Candidates, Others considered to be candidates
Junichirō Koizumi, former Prime Minister and nuclear power critic, declined to run after reportedly being approached by Yoshimi Watanabe of Your Party.


2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election, Candidates, Others considered to be candidates
Setsuo Yamaguchi, a real estate appraiser and head of a political organization, planned to run on a platform of revising the plans for rebuilding the National Olympic Stadium. This would be his third run for governor of Tokyo, his last appearance being in the 2007 election in which he received 0.06% of the total votes cast. He withdrew from the race on January 8 citing a lack of funds. Shigenobu Yoshida, former Japanese ambassador to Nepal, also briefly entered the race as an independent on a platform of reducing the budget for the Olympics. He previously ran in the 2012 election in which he received 1.23% of the total votes cast.


2014 Toledo Rockets football team
The 2014 Toledo Rockets football team represented the University of Toledo in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by head coach Matt Campbell in his third full year after coaching the Rockets in the 2011 Military Bowl. They played their home games at the Glass Bowl and were members of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 9–4, 7–1 in MAC play to finish in a tie for the West Division title with Northern Illinois. Due to their head to head loss to Northern Illinois, they did not represent the West Division in the MAC Championship Game. They were invited to the GoDaddy Bowl where they defeated Arkansas State.


2014 Tongan general election
General elections were held in Tonga on 27 November 2014. All twenty-six elected seats in the single-chamber Legislative Assembly were up for election, although the monarch, acting on the advice of his Prime Minister, retains the possibility to appoint members to Cabinet from outside Parliament, thus granting them a non-elected ex officio seat in Parliament.


2014 Tongan general election
They were the second elections carried out under the May 2010 electoral law, which provided that a majority of Assembly members should be elected by the people, rather than the people and the nobility having equal representation. The November 2010 general election was the first held under this new democratic principle; it was also the first to produce a Parliament empowered to give binding advice to the King as to the appointment of a Prime Minister.


2014 Tongan general election, Background
In the 2010 general elections, the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands (DPFI), led by veteran pro-democracy activist ʻAkilisi Pohiva, had won twelve of the people's seventeen seats, with the rest going to independent candidates. (The representatives of the nobility, for their part, never belong to any political party.) Pohiva, the MP for Tongatapu 1, had sought to become Prime Minister, but the nobles and independent people's representatives entrusted Lord Tuʻivakanō with the task of forming a government, relegating the DPFI to the status of a de facto parliamentary opposition.


2014 Tongan general election, Background
Considering that the reforms introduced in 2010 were merely to be viewed as a first step in the process of democratisation, the DPFI introduced a  bill in October 2013 (via ʻAisake Eke, MP for Tongatapu 5) which would have empowered the people to elect the Prime Minister directly from among the twenty-six elected members of Parliament, instead of the King appointing a Prime Minister from among those members on the advice of Parliament. The bill was rejected by fifteen votes to six, failing even to secure the support of all DPFI members.


2014 Tongan general election, Background
Nonetheless, Pohiva immediately announced that, in early 2014, his party would submit a bill for electoral reform, so that all twenty-six members  of the Assembly be elected by the people. The nobility would still retain their existing nine seats, but those nobles would be elected by the people. Pohiva suggested this would make "the whole Parliament [...] accountable to the people and not as we have it now". Dr Malakai Koloamatangi of Massey University commented that it was probably too late for any such reform to apply to the 2014 election.


2014 Tongan general election, Electoral system
Under the electoral reforms introduced prior to the 2010 election, Tonga is divided into seventeen single-member constituencies for the election of the people's representatives. These overlap with the four constituencies for the election of the nobles' representatives: a four-member constituency covering Tongatapu and ʻEua, a two-member constituency covering Vavaʻu, a two-member constituency covering Haʻapai, and a single-member constituency covering the islands of Niuafoʻou and Niuatoputapu. In both types of constituency, the first-past-the-post electoral system is applied.


2014 Tongan general election, Electoral system
All Tongan citizens aged at least 21, other than noble title holders and members of the Royal Family who hold noble titles, are entitled to elect the people's representative for their constituency. "Persons under summons for debt" and those diagnosed as insane are excluded from the right to vote. As for the nobles' constituencies, the right to vote is granted to hereditary peers and life peers, although only hereditary peers are entitled to be elected. There are thirty-three titles of hereditary nobility, which can be inherited only by men, and which entitle the bearer to the title of "Lord". Some of these titles are periodically vacant, and some are held by members of the Royal Family. As of 2013, eight commoners (all of them men) had been elevated by the monarchy to a life peerage, which likewise entitled them to the title of "Lord".


2014 Top Chinese Music Awards
Organized by Enlight Media, the 14th Top Chinese Music Awards were held on April 13, 2014 at Shenzhen Bay Sports Center in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Theme of this event is “Because of Music•Together”. Famous musician Gao Xiaosong was appointed as the Chairman of the Jury Committee.


2014 Toppserien
The 2014 Toppserien is the twenty-eighth season of top-tier women's football in Norway since its establishment in 1987. A total of 12 teams are contesting the league, eleven returning from the 2013 season and the one teams promoted from the First Division, Grand Bodø.


2014 Toppserien
The season started on 21 April 2014 and ended on 1 November 2014.


2014 Topshelf Open
The 2014 Topshelf Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 25th edition of the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, and was part of the 250 Series of the 2014 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA International tournaments of the 2014 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Autotron park in Rosmalen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, from June 15 through June 21, 2014.


2014 Topshelf Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Topshelf Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:


2014 Topshelf Open – Men's Doubles
Max Mirnyi and Horia Tecău were the defending champions, but Mirnyi chose not to participate. Tecău played alongside Jean-Julien Rojer and successfully defended the title, defeating Santiago González and Scott Lipsky in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–3).


2014 Topshelf Open – Men's Singles
Nicolas Mahut was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Roberto Bautista Agut. Bautista Agut went on to win the title, defeating Benjamin Becker in the final, 2–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–4.


2014 Topshelf Open – Women's Doubles
Irina-Camelia Begu and Anabel Medina Garrigues were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Begu played alongside Vania King, but lost in the first round to Michaëlla Krajicek and Kristina Mladenovic. Medina Garrigues teamed up with Yaroslava Shvedova, but lost in the semifinals to Krajicek and Mladenovic. Marina Erakovic and Arantxa Parra Santonja won the title, defeating Krajicek and Mladenovic in the final, 0–6, 7–6(7–5), [10–8].


2014 Topshelf Open – Women's Singles
Simona Halep was the defending champion, but she retired in the second round against Annika Beck. Qualifier CoCo Vandeweghe won her maiden WTA title, defeating Zheng Jie in the final, 6–2, 6–4.


2014 Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise season
The 2014 season for the Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise cycling team began in February at the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise. The team participated in UCI Continental Circuits and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation.


2014 Toray Pan Pacific Open
The 2014 Toray Pan Pacific Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 31st edition of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, and part of the Premier Series of the 2014 WTA Tour. It took place at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan, on 15–21 September 2014. Ana Ivanovic won the singles title.


2014 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Doubles entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Doubles
Cara Black and Sania Mirza were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Garbiñe Muguruza and Carla Suárez Navarro in the final, 6–2, 7–5.


2014 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles
Petra Kvitová was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year.


2014 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles
Ana Ivanovic won the title, defeating Caroline Wozniacki in the final, 6–2, 7–6(7–2). This was Ivanovic's 15th and final title of her career.


2014 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2014 Torneio Internacional de Brasília de Futebol Feminino squads
The 2014 Torneio Internacional de Brasília de Futebol Feminino (also known as the 2014 International Tournament of Brasilia) is an invitational football tournament held every December in Brazil. The 2014 tournament ran from December 10–21, 2014.


2014 Torneio Internacional de Brasília de Futebol Feminino squads
Tournament rules allow a 23-member roster. Players marked (c) were named as captain for their national squad. Totals for caps and goals, club affiliations, and ages are as of the opening day of the tournament on 10 December 2014.


2014 Torneio Internacional de Brasília de Futebol Feminino squads, Squads, Argentina
The Argentine Football Association (AFA) announced a list of 20 players who would travel to Brazil.


2014 Torneio Internacional de Brasília de Futebol Feminino squads, Squads, Brazil
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) announced a squad of 23 players on 8 December 2014.


2014 Torneo Apertura (Chile)
The 2014 Campeonato Nacional Apertura Scotiabank was the 95th season of Chilean League top flight soccer. The tournament's champions were Universidad de Chile, who won their seventeenth League title.


2014 Torneo Apertura (Chile), Pre-Copa Libertadores Liguilla
Following the conclusion of the regular season, the teams placed 2nd to 5th qualify for the Liguilla in order to determine qualifying spots for the following international tournaments:


2014 Torneo Apertura (Chile), Pre-Copa Libertadores Liguilla
Colo-Colo, placed 3rd, was ineligible to compete due to having already qualified for Copa Libertadores as champions of the previous tournament.


2014 Torneo Apertura (Chile), Pre-Copa Libertadores Liguilla, Final
Palestino won 9–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2015 Copa Libertadores. Santiago Wanderers, as runners-up, qualified for the 2016 Copa Sudamericana.


2014 Torneo Clausura (Chile)
The 2014 Campeonato Nacional Clausura Scotiabank was the 94th Chilean League top flight. The tournament’s champion was Colo-Colo which won its 30th league title after four years without reaching it.


2014 Torneo Clausura (Chile), Pre-Copa Sudamericana Liguilla, Final
Cobresal won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified to the 2014 Copa Sudamericana.


2014 Torneo Clausura (Primera B de Chile)
The 2014 Torneo Clausura was part of the 64th completed season of the Primera B de Chile.


2014 Torneo Descentralizado
The 2014 Torneo Descentralizado de Fútbol Profesional (known as the 2014 Copa Movistar for sponsorship reasons) was the 98th season of the highest division of Peruvian football. A total of 16 teams competed in the tournament. The Torneo Descentralizado began on June 7 and ended on December 21 2014.


2014 Torneo Descentralizado, Tournament modus
The season was divided into three stages. The first two stages were two smaller Apertura and Clausura tournaments of 15 games each. Each team played other teams once during the Apertura tournament and during the Clausura tournament in a reversed order for a total of 30 matches each. In the third stage the championship was contested in a two-legged Play-off. The two teams ranked first at the end of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments moved on to the next round as long as they finished within the top eight teams in the aggregate table.


2014 Torneo Descentralizado, Tournament modus
The Play-off finalists qualified for the Copa Libertadores second stage. The remaining international competition berths were determined by the season aggregate table. Bonus points were awarded to two teams based on the performance of their reserve teams in the 2014 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva at the end of the tournament. The two teams with the fewest points in the aggregate table at the end of the tournament was relegated.


2014 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams
A total of 16 teams competed in the championship, including 14 sides from the 2013 season, the 2013 Peruvian Segunda División champion, and the 2013 Copa Perú champion.


2014 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams
Pacífico and José Gálvez were relegated to 2014 Peruvian Segunda División the previous season: Pacífico immediately returned to the Peruvian Segunda Division after being promoted the previous year. José Gálvez was relegated for the sixth time after a brief two-year tenure in the top division thus becoming the Peruvian team with the most promotions and relegations in history.


2014 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams
The relegated teams were replaced by Los Caimanes and San Simón from the Peruvian Segunda División and Copa Perú respectively who both make their debut in the top flight of Peruvian football. Los Caimanes won the Segunda División by a three-point margin after a short two-year tenure in it. San Simón reached the top division by defeating Unión Huaral in the Copa Perú final.


2014 Torneo Descentralizado, Torneo Clausura, Clausura play-off
Because Alianza Lima and Sporting Cristal tied with 33 points a title play-off on neutral ground was played as the tournament rules specify.


2014 Torneo Descentralizado, Play-offs
The Third Stage were the finals (also known as the Play-off) of the 2014 season between the winners of the Clausura and Apertura tournaments. The team with the most points on the aggregate table chose which leg they play as the home team.


2014 Torneo Descentralizado, Aggregate table
The aggregate table determined the four teams who qualified to the 2015 Copa Sudamericana, one team to the 2015 Copa Libertadores if necessary, and the two teams to be relegated to the Segunda División. The aggregate table consisted of the points earned in the Apertura and Clausura stages.


2014 Torneo Descentralizado, Relegation play-off
Because Sport Huancayo and Los Caimanes tied with 32 points a relegation play-off on neutral ground will be played as the tournament rules specify.


2014 Torneo Federal A
The 2014 season was the first season of the Torneo Federal A, third division professional of football in Argentina. For this season, AFA decided to change the structure in the Argentine football league system, so 21 teams were invited by the Consejo Federal and 17 accepted the invitation and exceptionally 7 teams were promoted to the next season of Primera B Nacional and there were no relegations for this season. A total of 40 teams competed.


2014 Torneo Federal A, Format, First Stage
The teams were divided into five zones with eight teams (a total of 40 teams) in each zone and it was played in a round-robin tournament. The team placed first of each zone was automatically promoted to Primera B Nacional, the teams placed 2º to 4º and the best 5º team from the five zones qualified for the Second Stage.


2014 Torneo Federal A, Format, Second Stage
Consists of sixteen (16) teams that qualified from the First Stage. It was played in a double-elimination tournament. The order was:


2014 Torneo Federal A, Format, Second Stage
The playoffs were: 1º vs 16º; 2º vs 15º; 3º vs 14º; 4º vs 13; 5º vs 12º; 6º vs 11º; 7º vs 10º; 8º vs 9º. The winning teams qualified for the Third Stage.


2014 Torneo Federal A, Format, Third Stage
Consists of eight teams that qualified from the Second Stage. It was played in a double-elimination tournament. The teams remain with the designated positions of the Second Stage. The playoffs were: 1º vs 8º; 2º vs 7º; 3º vs 6º; 4º vs 5º. The winning teams qualified for the Fourth Stage.


2014 Torneo Federal A, Format, Fourth Stage
Consists of four(4) teams that qualified from the Second Stage. It was played in a double-elimination tournament. The teams remain with the designated positions of the Second Stage. The playoffs were: 1º vs 4; 2º vs 3º. The winning teams were promoted to Primera B Nacional.


2014 Torneo Federal A, Format, Relegations
As it is a transition tournament there will be no relegations.


2014 Torneo Federal A, Club information, Zone 5
1 Play their home games at Estadio José María Minella.


2014 Torneo Federal A, First stage
The teams were divided into five zones and it was played in a round-robin system. The team placed first of each zone was automatically promoted to Primera B Nacional, the teams placed 2º to 4º and the best 5º team from the five zones qualified for the Second Stage.


2014 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva
The Torneo de Promoción y Reserva is a football tournament in Peru. There are currently 16 clubs in the league. Each team will have a roaster of twelve 21-year-old players, three 19-year-olds as three older reinforcements; whenever they be recorded in the club. The team champion in this tournament will offer two points and the runner-up a point of bonus to the respective regular team in the 2014 Torneo Descentralizado.


2014 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva, Tournament modus
The tournament will be played during both the 2014 Torneo del Inca and 2014 Torneo Descentralizado for a total of 44 games. In the first stage the 16 teams are divided into 2 groups. Both groups play a round-robin home-and-away round for 14 matches. The team ranked first in each group at the end of the round will play the stage final to decide the stage champion and runner-up. The first stage champion and runner-up will receive a two points and one point bonus for the next stage of the tournament. The second stage of the tournament will play a round-robin home-and-away round for a total of 30 matches each. The tournament champion offer two points and the runner-up a point of bonus to the respective regular team in the 2014 Torneo Descentralizado.


2014 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva, Torneo del Inca, Final
This match was originally scheduled to be played on the same day and place hours before the 2014 Torneo del Inca Final but was postpone to not interfere with two Peru national under-20 football team's friendlies. The champion and runner-up will give its team +2 and +1 point(s) on the tournament's second stage.


2014 Torneo del Inca
The 2014 Torneo del Inca (also known as part of the 2014 Copa Movistar for sponsorship reasons) is the 2nd season of the Peruvian domestic cup. A total of 16 teams are competing in the tournament from the 2014 Torneo Descentralizado. The Torneo del Inca began on February 14 and is scheduled to end on May 21.


2014 Torneo del Inca, Competition modus
The teams will be divided in two groups of eight from which the first place teams in each respective group will qualify for a play-off game to decide the champion. The champion will classified to the 2015 Copa Libertadores as Peru 3 and the runner-up will classified to the 2015 Copa Sudamericana as Peru 4 as long as they finish in the top eight of the 2014 Torneo Descentralizado season aggregate table. Alianza Lima and Universitario were seeded into groups A and B respectively and the remaining 14 teams were drawn randomly. The venue for the final (also known as Play-off) will be chosen by the ADFP, which is the governing body of professional football in Perú, to be played on neutral ground. The team with the fewest points over all will start the 2014 Torneo Descentralizado with −3 points.


2014 Torneo del Inca, 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 Torneo di Viareggio
This is the 66th edition of Torneo di Viareggio. The 2014 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.


2014 Torneo di Viareggio, Format
The 32 teams are seeded in 8 pools, split up into 6-pool groups. Each team from a pool meets the others in a single tie. The winning club from each pool and two best runners-up from both group A and group B progress to the final knockout stage. All matches in the final rounds are single tie. The Round of 16 after envisions penalties and no extra time, while the rest of the final round matches include 30 minutes extra time and penalties to be played if the draw between teams still holds.


2014 Torneo di Viareggio, Format
Four additional clubs are allowed to enter the competition from the Round of 16 onward through a wild card, according to their record of achievements. The wild card will be given at the incontestable discretion of the organising committee. 2014 wild card: Juventus F.C., A.C. Milan, AACF Fiorentina, F.C. Internazionale Milano.


2014 Torneo di Viareggio, Participating teams
32 teams participate in the tournament. The list of the teams are below.


2014 Toronto Argonauts season
The 2014 Toronto Argonauts season was their 57th season in the Canadian Football League and their 142nd season overall. The Argonauts finished in third place in the East Division but missed out on a playoff spot due to the crossover rule. The 9–9 BC Lions, fourth place in the West Division, had a better record and therefore eliminated the Argos from the playoffs.


2014 Toronto Argonauts season
Entering the final game of the season at 7–10 against the Ottawa Redblacks, the Argos needed to win to keep their playoff hopes alive, which they did. They also needed Hamilton to lose to Montreal for the Argos to finish second and make the playoffs ahead of the crossover team, the BC Lions. However, the Ti-Cats won that game, eliminating the Argos from the playoffs on the last day of the regular season.


2014 Toronto Argonauts season, Offseason, CFL Draft
The 2014 CFL Draft took place on May 13, 2014. The Argonauts had eight selections in the seven-round draft. They concluded a trade with the Edmonton Eskimos to secure the third overall pick, enabling them to draft Anthony Coombs. That trade saw their second round selection go to Edmonton in exchange for another third round selection.


2014 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Standings
Toronto missed the playoffs, as a third-place team having an inferior record to the fourth-place team in the other division, the 9-9 BC Lions.


2014 Toronto Argonauts season, Team, Roster
Italics indicates International Player updated 2014-11-0646 Active, 18 Injured8 Practice


2014 Toronto Blue Jays season
The 2014 Toronto Blue Jays season was the 38th season for the franchise, and the 25th full season of play (26th overall) at Rogers Centre. Pitcher Roy Halladay signed a one-day contract with the Blue Jays before retiring from baseball, citing injuries.


2014 Toronto Blue Jays season
The Blue Jays announced their 2014 schedule on September 10, 2013.


2014 Toronto Blue Jays season, 2014 Draft
The 2014 Major League Baseball draft was held on June 5–7.


2014 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
The Blue Jays started the year, like most years in the past 10, in mediocre fashion, ending the month of April with a record of 12 wins and 15 losses, 3 1⁄2 games behind the Eastern division leaders. The month of May was a different story; they won 21 games and lost 9, taking over sole possession of the division lead on May 22. The month was memorable for a 9-game winning streak which included series sweeps over the Boston Red Sox (away), the Oakland A's (at home) and the Tampa Bay Rays (at home).


2014 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
Edwin Encarnación hit 16 home runs during the month, tying an American League record for homers in May, set by Mickey Mantle in 1956. Between May 15 and June 6, the Blue Jays won 18 out of 21 to climb into their largest division lead, at any point of the season, since 1993. However, from June 7 to June 30 the Jays won only 7 more games versus 15 losses. As of June 30, they were just 6 games above .500, but still held onto a 1 1⁄2 game lead in their division.


2014 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
The Blue Jays had three All Stars in 2014: José Bautista, Mark Buehrle, and Edwin Encarnación.


2014 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
On July 26, the Blue Jays ended a streak of 17 consecutive losses in games against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. On August 10, the Blue Jays played the longest game in franchise history in terms of both time and innings, defeating the Detroit Tigers 6–5 after 19 innings. After a poor August, Toronto opened September with its first series win in Tampa Bay since April 6–8, 2007. They would go on to complete the sweep, their first at Tropicana Field. Top prospect Daniel Norris made his MLB debut on September 5, striking out David Ortiz in his 1⁄3 of an inning.


2014 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Summary
On September 23, the Blue Jays were officially eliminated from playoff contention. The Kansas City Royals clinched a playoff spot on September 26, making the Blue Jays the owners of the longest active MLB playoff drought, until clinching a playoff berth the following year.


2014 Toronto FC season
The 2014 Toronto FC season was the eighth season in club history. During the off-season, Toronto FC agreed to a one-year partnership with USL outfit Wilmington Hammerheads. Jackson, Justin Morrow, Dwayne De Rosario, Gilberto, Michael Bradley, Jermain Defoe, Bradley Orr, Collen Warner, Luke Moore, Dominic Oduro, Warren Creavalle and Júlio César came to Toronto.


2014 Toronto FC season
Toronto opened pre-season on January 24. Toronto will start the season on March 15 against the Seattle Sounders FC and finish on October 25 against the New England Revolution.


2014 Toronto FC season, Background, Background information
During the 2013 season, Toronto FC finished second from bottom of the Eastern Conference. They had finished 19th out of 19 teams in the 2012 season. Toronto held off renewal of season tickets "months later than normal — hoping that off-season moves have given ticket-holders a reason to get back on board." Toronto FC agreed to a one-year partnership with USL outfit Wilmington Hammerheads on January 22. In the deal, will receive a minimum of four Toronto FC reserve team players. Also included in the deal is invitation for the Wilmington Hammerheads to attend the club's pre–season training camp in Florida, the club's coaching curriculum, and an MLS club's professional environment which includes a business relationship and a friendly.


2014 Toronto FC season, Background, Background information
During the off-season, Toronto acquired Jackson, Issey Nakajima-Farran, Justin Morrow, and Dwayne De Rosario. Gilberto signed as a designated player. Gilberto had "turned down deals in Mexico, Germany, and other countries." In addition to Gilberto, Michael Bradley and Jermain Defoe joined the club as designated players. Defoe was due to join Toronto on February 28 from Tottenham Hotspur. However, Defoe didn't join Toronto until March 9 due to International duty with England. Bradley Orr and Júlio César joined Toronto on loan.


2014 Toronto FC season, Background, Background information
The options on Gale Agbossoumonde, Joe Bendik, Mark Bloom, Bright Dike, Jeremy Hall, Chris Konopka, Reggie Lambe, Ryan Richter, Quillan Roberts, Emery Welshman, and Andrew Wiedeman were exercised. Joe Bendik signed a new contract. Greg Vanney was hired as Assistant General Manager and the Academy Director on December 11.


2014 Toronto FC season, Background, Background information
Tim Bezbatchenko confirmed that Darel Russell, Michael Thomas, Stefan Frei, Justin Braun, and Danny Koevermans would not return to the club in 2014 after their contracts expired or their options were declined. The right to sign Stefan Frei was traded to the Seattle Sounders FC. Stefan Frei was the longest-serving player at the club at the time of the trade. Richard Eckersley and Matías Laba were traded. Jonas Elmer and Toronto FC "mutually agreed to part ways." Emery Welshman and Reggie Lambe were placed on waivers.


2014 Toronto FC season, Background, Robert Earnshaw and Bobby Convey
Robert Earnshaw and Bobby Convey options were also declined. Bobby Convey had expected to return to the club. However, Toronto FC General Manager Tim Bezbatchenko stated that he wanted Bobby Convey back at the club and stated that he "could be an important piece." The club are "attempting to make the veteran's salary cap hit match his on-field production." Tim Bezbatchenko also stated that he wanted Robert Earnshaw back at the club. The rights to Bobby Convey were traded to the New York Red Bulls.


2014 Toronto FC season, Background, Designated player search
The club was in the process of a "lengthy search" for a "marquee-designated player". MLSE President Tim Leiweke, Club General Manager Tim Bezbatchenko, and Head Coach Ryan Nelsen traveled to Europe in October 2013 to search for such a player. Leiweke was quoted, stating, that "the days of us putting our toe in the water and trying to find a cheap DP (designated player) are over. We're going to go swing for the fences." The club wanted to sign two strikers in the January transfer window and were at the "top of the list."


2014 Toronto FC season, Background, Designated player search
The attention was on clubs in the Premier League and Serie A. Jermain Defoe, Alberto Gilardino Samuel Eto'o and Fabio Quagliarella were rumoured to join Toronto FC. The club denied the report about signing Defoe, but Bezbatchenko stated that "it's obvious the public "knows" who the targets are." Bezbatchenko also stated that "We've identified 3–5 (potential Designated Players) that would fit the role" and that "We're really honing in [sic] on two." Another name in the media was Gilberto. Toronto FC was in competition with clubs in La Liga, Liga MX, Serie A, and Bundesliga for Gilberto's signature.


2014 Toronto FC season, Background, Designated player search
Gilberto was in Toronto and was at the Toronto Raptors game on December 10. Gilberto signed for the club on December 14. Michael Bradley and Defoe joined Gilberto as designated players. Defoe joined Toronto on February 28. Defoe was part of a marketing campaign with the club. The club put together a television advertisement stating that it's a "bloody big deal" that Defoe is coming to Toronto FC. The ad was also online and had close to 60,000 views in a day.


2014 Toronto FC season, Background, Designated player search
The ads were running on The Sports Network and Sportsnet with Toronto being the main focus of the marketing campaign. Even though MLSE was using Defoe in their marketing campaigns, British newspaper The Guardian stated "The money may be good but the club are woeful and playing in Canada may end the striker's World Cup hopes."


2014 Toronto FC season, Pre–season, Review
Toronto Opened pre–season on January 24 and left for a training camp in Florida on January 27. The expectations are "sky high" coming into pre–season. During pre–season training camp in Florida, Toronto defeated D.C. United 1–0 before returning to Toronto on February 7. However, Toronto returned to Florida to play in the Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic in Orlando, Florida. During the tournament, Toronto lost to Columbus Crew 3–1, tied Orlando City 1–1, tied Philadelphia Union 0–0, lost to Fluminense FC U23 team 4–2. During pre–season, Bright Dike injured his leg and will be out for six months. Doneil Henry trained with West Ham United during West Ham United for two and a half weeks.


2014 Toronto FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Review
Toronto faced Seattle Sounders FC on March 15 in their season opener after having a bye–week during the opening weekend in the Major League Soccer season. Toronto won the match 2–1. Jermain Defoe scored both goals for Toronto and Clint Dempsey scored for Seattle. Gilberto didn't travel with the team to Seattle due to an injury. Gilberto suffered a hip flexor injury during pre–season. Bright Dike is out long–term. Michael Bradley, Justin Morrow, Bradley Orr, and Álvaro Rey were "questionable" for the game.


2014 Toronto FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Review
Bradley, Morrow, and Rey started the match and Orr came on as a substitute in the 65th minute. Doneil Henry started the match and made his 50th league appearance. Dempsey got a two-game suspension for "violent conduct" from an incident with Mark Bloom. Dempsey had hit Bloom in the groin. Toronto's first home game is against D.C. United on March 22. Toronto won 1–0 with a goal from Jermain Defoe. This is the first time that Toronto won the first two games of the season. Toronto faced Real Salt Lake on March 29. Real Salt Lake won 3–0 with goals from Álvaro Saborío (2 Goals) and Luis Gil. Jackson was suspended for the match.


2014 Toronto FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Review
Toronto starts April with a 2–0 win against the Columbus Crew on April 5. Steven Caldwell was suspended for the match.


2014 Toronto FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Review
Then Toronto tied Chicago Fire 2–2 on August 23. Bakary Soumaré (own goal) and Gilberto scored for Toronto and Robert Earnshaw and Quincy Amarikwa scored for Chicago. Steven Caldwell and Justin Morrow left the game injured. To finish off August, Toronto lost to New England Revolution 3–0 on August 30 with goals from Lee Nguyen, Kelyn Rowe, and Teal Bunbury. All three goals came off of turnovers.


2014 Toronto FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Review
Toronto turned the ball over which led to Nguyen and Rowe scoring and the ball came off the referee after Michael Bradley tried "to swing the ball right sideline" which led to Bunbury's goal. The following day, head coach Ryan Nelsen and his assistants were fired. Greg Vanney became the new head coach.


2014 Toronto FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Review
Toronto started September with two games against the Philadelphia Union. In the first match, on September 3, Philadelphia won 1–0 with a goal from Conor Casey. Ashtone Morgan, who made his first appearance since the opening game of the season, was sent–off after "pulling down" Sébastien Le Toux while Le Toux was "on a breakaway." This was Greg Vanney's first match in–charge as head coach. In the second match, on September 6, Philadelphia won 2–0 with goals from Connor Casey and Andrew Wenger. The second match was Vanney's first home match since he became the new head coach.


2014 Toronto FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Review
The loss to Philadelphia meant Philadelphia overtook Toronto in the Eastern Conference standings. Then, on September 13, Toronto tied Chicago Fire 1–1. Michael Bradley was critical of the referee after the match and was eventually fined an undisclosed amount for the comment. Then on September 21, Toronto defeated Chivas USA 3–0 with goals from Jackson, Luke Moore, and Gilberto.


2014 Toronto FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Table
(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion


2014 Toronto FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Results summary
Last updated: October 25, 2014Source: ResultsPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2014 Toronto FC season, Canadian Championship
Toronto FC opened their attempt to win the 2014 Canadian Championship against the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, due to the seeding procedure used for the Championship.


2014 Toronto International Film Festival
The 39th annual Toronto International Film Festival, the 39th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series,  was held in Canada from 4–14 September 2014. David Dobkin's film The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall was the opening night film. A Little Chaos, a British period drama directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet closed the festival. More films for each section were announced on 12 August, with the line-up completed on 19 August. A total of 393 films were shown, including 143 world premieres. The first Friday was dubbed "Bill Murray Day", as festival organisers dedicated a day to the actor by screening a select number of his films for free.


2014 Toronto International Film Festival, Programmes, Short Cuts Canada
42 short films were presented as part of Short Cuts Canada in 2014, including:


2014 Toronto International Film Festival, Canada's Top Ten
In December, TIFF programmers released their annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films selected as the ten best Canadian films of 2014. The selected films received a follow-up screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as a "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in January 2015.


2014 Toronto Rock season
The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2014 season was the 17th in franchise history, and 16th as the Rock.


2014 Toronto Rock season
After an up-and-down start to the season, the Rock acquired goaltender Brandon Miller from the Philadelphia Wings at the trade deadline hoping to revitalize their shaky defense.


2014 Toronto Rock season
On April 5, star forward Garrett Billings tore his ACL during a game against the Vancouver Stealth and was lost for the remainder of the season. Despite losing the league's scoring leader, the Rock won that game, which started a four-game winning streak to finish the regular season and clinch second place in the Eastern division ahead of the slumping Buffalo Bandits. But the Bandits ended their 8-game losing streak by beating the Rock in the division semi-finals, 15–3.


2014 Toronto Rock season, Regular season, Final standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2014 Toronto mayoral election
The 2014 Toronto Mayoral Election took place on October 27, 2014. Incumbent Mayor Rob Ford was running for re-election, but dropped out after being diagnosed with a tumour to instead run for city council in Ward 2. Registration of candidates began on January 2, 2014, and ended September 12, 2014, at 2 pm.


2014 Toronto mayoral election
The election was won by former Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader and 2003 mayoral runner-up John Tory, who defeated Ford's brother, city councillor Doug Ford, and former Trinity—Spadina MP Olivia Chow. More than 980,000 Torontonians cast ballots in this election – a record turnout of 60 percent.


2014 Toronto mayoral election, Results
Official results from the City of Toronto as of October 28, 2014.


2014 Toronto mayoral election, Candidates
At the close of nominations on September 12, 2014, 67 candidates were registered as per the City of Toronto website. Eighteen candidates had withdrawn including incumbent mayor Rob Ford. Two of the candidates who withdrew ended up re-registering and subsequently withdrawing again.


2014 Toronto mayoral election, Issues
According to Nanos Research opinion poll conducted in July 2014 during the election campaign, the main issues concerning the voters were: public transit, high property taxes, jobs and the local economy and traffic.


2014 Toronto mayoral election, Issues, Public transit
Chow's transit strategy focused on buses under the slogan of "Better bus service. Now." Some of the details included "more comfort and dignity" to bus commuters and adding 10% capacity during peak periods. Rob Ford's plan revolved around subway expansion, building 32 km of subway at an estimated cost of $9 billion. Doug Ford's policy mirrors mayor's pro-subway agenda. Tory presented his SmartTrack plan for transit – a 53-kilometre, 22-stop network that would run on existing commuter rail tracks.


2014 Toronto mayoral election, Issues, Property taxes
Chow proposed a 1% hike on the levy charged to properties sold for over $2 million. Rob Ford promised to keep property taxes "well below" the rate of inflation. Tory pledged to keep property-tax increases within the rate of inflation.


2014 Toronto mayoral election, Issues, Jobs and economy
Chow plans to boost economic opportunities by making Toronto the main trading hub for the Chinese currency in North America and Tory considers the mayor's job to "be the principal sales person and ambassador for the city".


2014 Toronto mayoral election, Endorsements
Some of the candidates have been endorsed by the following prominent persons and media outlets:


2014 Toronto municipal election
The 2014 Toronto municipal election was held on October 27, 2014 to elect a mayor and 44 city councillors in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In addition, school trustees were elected to the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest and Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud. The election was held in conjunction with those held in other municipalities in the province of Ontario. Candidate registration opened on January 2, 2014 and closed on September 12, 2014 at 2pm EST.


2014 Toronto municipal election, City council
City councillors were elected to represent Toronto's 44 wards at Toronto City Council. 36 out of 37 incumbent councillors were re-elected to their previous seat.


2014 Toronto municipal election, Issues, Transit
In the Greater Toronto Area, the average time spent commuting to and from work is 80 minutes, making it the worst among 19 large urban areas in North America. Transit was a major issue because of several controversial projects in the city, such as the use of subway versus light rail transit technology to replace the Scarborough RT, congested TTC streetcars, construction disruption from the Eglinton Crosstown, and the electrification of the Union Pearson Express. Proposals by Metrolinx to impose revenue tools to fund transit were also a source of controversy. The Toronto Region Board of Trade and TTC CEO Andy Byford stated that transit must be a critical issue that voters consider in the election.


2014 Toronto municipal election, Issues, Rob Ford
Much attention was given to allegations against Rob Ford during the 2014 election, and his admission on November 5, 2013, to smoking crack cocaine.


2014 Toronto municipal election, Issues, Ranked ballots and voting rights for permanent residents
On June 11, 2013, Toronto City Council passed a motion asking the Government of Ontario to give permanent residents the right to participate in municipal elections and to allow the city to adopt ranked choice balloting, which would give voters the option to rank candidates in order of preference. Twenty-six councillors supported the motion and fifteen were against it. Following the council move, the Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto sent a petition with over eight thousand signatures to the provincial government, endorsing the council motion and requesting swift action on electoral reform. The Liberal MPP for Scarborough-Guildwood, Mitzie Hunter, then introduced the Toronto Ranked Ballots Election Act in March 2014. The bill was passed on the second reading but died prematurely when the Ontario election was called.


2014 Toronto municipal election, Issues, Other
In the wake of substance abuse allegations against Rob Ford, the possibility of reversing the 1998 amalgamation of Toronto was raised.


2014 Toronto municipal election, Results, Ward 2 - Etobicoke North
Incumbent mayor Rob Ford, ran in Ward 2 after withdrawing from the mayoral election for health reasons. His nephew, Michael Ford, withdrew from the councillor election and was elected as TDSB trustee (and later elected as Ward 2 councillor in a by-election after Rob Ford's death).


2014 Toronto municipal election, Results, Ward 3 - Etobicoke Centre
Incumbent Peter Leon did not run (Leon was appointed to replace Doug Holyday in 2014).


2014 Toronto municipal election, Results, Ward 5 - Etobicoke—Lakeshore
Incumbent James Maloney did not run for re-election. (Maloney was appointed to replace Peter Milczyn in 2014.)


2014 Toronto municipal election, Results, Ward 16 - Eglinton—Lawrence
Incumbent Karen Stintz was running for Mayor but dropped out and declared she would not be running for council.


2014 Toronto municipal election, Results, Ward 20 - Trinity—Spadina
Incumbent Ceta Ramkhalawansingh did not run. She was appointed in 2014 to replace Adam Vaughan who resigned and was elected to the Canadian Parliament.


2014 Toronto municipal election, Results, Ward 39 - Scarborough—Agincourt
Incumbent Mike Del Grande did not run for re-election to Council, but ran for the Ward 7 Toronto Catholic School Board seat and replaced his son, John Del Grande, who did not run for re-election after holding the seat for 11 years.