2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Though the Wildcats (3-1, 1-1) sent 56,940 away happy with their first conference win since November 2011 against Tennessee, there was no wild on-field celebration by Kentucky players after escaping the Commodores (1-4, 0-3). Coach Mark Stoops congratulated several players and shook hands with Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason before departing to cheers.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
All of the game's scoring came in the first half with Towles doing the work with his arm and feet. He connected with Ryan Timmons to cap a 99-yard, 13-play opening drive, then followed Austin MacGinnis' 44-yard field goal with a 1-yard sneak just before halftime.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Kentucky's defense, particularly defensive back Marcus McWilson, A.J. Stamps and Ashely Lowery, kept the Commodores from scoring again with timely pickoffs. The Wildcats held the Commodores to just 57 second-half yards and 139 total, the fewest total yards Kentucky has given up to an SEC opponent since Vanderbilt had 91 in 1996.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Towles completed 23 of 30 passes for 201 of Kentucky's 384 yards but lost a fourth-quarter fumble and had a second-quarter interception returned 13 yards by Darrius Sims for Vanderbilt's only points. He was also sacked four times.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Despite Kentucky's inconsistent performance, the victory still was an encouraging step forward for a program seeking respectability after consecutive 2-10 seasons. Most important was finally closing the deal on an opponent for the first time in over two years, a goal the Wildcats came up just short on with a 36-30 triple-overtime loss at Florida two weeks ago.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
That disappointing yet thrilling loss stirred its fan base enough to gobble up discounted upper-deck tickets and give Kentucky its biggest crowd this season.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
The Wildcats were even 17-point favorites against a Vanderbilt squad that had won the last three games in this series by a 100-14 margin. Though Kentucky didn't cover the spread, being favored spoke volumes about its improvement.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
In fact, Kentucky's main concern was avoiding a letdown from the Florida game, especially coming off a bye. The Wildcats showed no effects from that disappointment or the break on their first drive as they drove 99 yards in 13 plays behind Towles' arm and feet.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Besides hitting his first nine passes for 77 yards, including the slant to Timmons for the TD, the sophomore extended the drive with a 21-yard keeper on third-and-11.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Towles completed another short pass before the costly interception to Sims, whose two kickoff returns for touchdowns last week against South Carolina resulted in preventive measures by Kentucky's special teams.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Towles recovered to lead Kentucky to 10 unanswered points by intermission but Kentucky didn't score again.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
A late interception returned for a touchdown led the Kentucky football team to its biggest win of the Mark Stoops era with a 45-38 victory over South Carolina Saturday night at Commonwealth Stadium.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
In front of 62,135, Patrick Towles threw for 208 yards and a touchdown and Jojo Kemp had 131 yards rushing and three scores - most of them out of the Wildcat formation - to lead the Wildcats to their second consecutive Southeastern Conference victory. Kentucky improved to 4-1 and 2-1 in league play, while South Carolina fell to 3-3 and 2-2 in the SEC.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
UK has two conference wins for the first time since 2011, and won back-to-back SEC contests for the first time since 2006 when the Wildcats won three consecutive league outings.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
Kentucky found itself down by two scores twice, but continued to battle back. It was the second time, early in the fourth quarter, having given up 21 unanswered points that was the game changer.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
UK's offense found the end zone on consecutive drives following USC's final score, both Kemp touchdown runs, to tie the game at 38-38.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
It was on South Carolina's possession after Kentucky tied the game that the UK defense made its biggest statement yet. With the Gamecocks on their own 20-yard line, Alvin "Bud" Dupree intercepted a tipped pass on the six-yard line. The senior went untouched into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown. UK's first interception returned for a score since 2009 gave the Wildcats a 45-38 lead with 2:29 left.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
Led by a strong defensive effort that included two interceptions returned for touchdowns, the Kentucky football team scored 45 unanswered points to defeat ULM, 48-14 Saturday afternoon in front of 56,676 fans on a crisp fall day at Commonwealth Stadium.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
With the win, the Wildcats improved to 5-1 while the Warhawks fell to 3-3. UK, 5-1 for the first time since 2007 and just the seventh time since 1950, has won three consecutive games for the first time since the 2010 season.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
UK overcame a slow start to eclipse 45 points for the third time in 2014, the most since 2010. All but three of those points came after Kentucky spotted ULM a 14-3 advantage in the first quarter.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
The UK defense, which had two interceptions returned for touchdowns in a game for the first time since 1986, held the Warhawks to 187 yards passing and just 77 yards on the ground. ULM was forced to punt eight times and fumbled five times, one which Kentucky recovered.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
Offensively, quarterback Patrick Towles was 16-of-28 for 216 yards and three touchdowns. Javess Blue caught three passes for 109 yards and two scores, while Blake Bone caught two for one touchdown. Towles' 83-yard touchdown pass to Blue was a career long for the sophomore quarterback.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
On the ground, Stanley Williams rushed seven times for 104 yards and one touchdown, a 58-yarder in the third quarter. He also opened the game with a 75-yard kickoff return to set up UK's first score of the game.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
Kentucky entered the second quarter trailing 14-3, but after the UK defense forced ULM to punt with just over five minutes remaining in the quarter the Wildcats quickly began to cut away at the deficit. Towles hit Blue for an 83-yard touchdown pass, the longest play of the season for Kentucky, to bring UK within four.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
On the very next ULM drive, Josh Forrest returned an interception 29 yards to give UK a 17-14 lead. The pick-six marked the second time in as many weeks the Wildcat defense returned the game-winning score for a touchdown.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
On the game's opening drive, Austin MacGinnis hit a 37-yard field goal to give UK a 3-0 lead, the third time in six games in 2014 that Kentucky has scored on its first drive of the contest.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
Following Forrest's pick-six that resulted in the go-ahead score, the UK defense forced ULM into a three-and-out, and six plays later, Blake Bone caught a four-yard touchdown pass from Towles to give UK a 24-14 lead. Boone's second touchdown catch of the season with 4:08 left in the half capped a six play, 44-yard drive.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
On Kentucky's second drive of the second half, after the UK defense forced ULM into back-to-back three-and-outs, Blue hauled in a 21-yard pass from Towles for the score to give the Wildcats a 31-14 lead. The touchdown catch, Blue's second of the game, capped a four-play, 30-yard drive.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe
ULM's next drive resulted in another interception for the Wildcat defense. Marcus McWilson, with the 36-yard interception returned for a touchdown, gave UK a 38-14 lead and its fourth defensive score of the season. It marked the first time since 2008 that UK returned two turnovers for touchdowns, while the four defensive touchdowns was also the most since 2008.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
Facing arguably its toughest test of the season, the Kentucky football team suffered a 41-3 loss to LSU Saturday night in front of 101,581 at Tiger Stadium.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
The Wildcats (5-2, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) were held to 217 yards offensively, with 146 coming through the air and 71 rushing yards. The Tigers (6-2, 2-2 SEC) had 423 total yards, including 303 on the ground and 120 passing.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
Kentucky returns home Saturday, where it is a perfect 5-0 in 2014, to face No. 1 Mississippi State Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET. The Wildcats will look to become bowl eligible with their sixth win of the season for the first time since 2010. UK's matchup with the top-ranked Bulldogs will air live on CBS and on the UK Radio Network.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
UK quarterback Patrick Towles was 19-36 for 146 yards in addition to 16 yards rushing on seven attempts. Demarco Robinson caught three passes for 52 yards, including one for 33 yards, while Ryan Timmons had four catches for 24 yards.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
On the ground, Mikel Horton led Kentucky with 29 yards while Stanley Boom Williams had seven rushes for 19 yards.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
Defensively, three Wildcats had 10 tackles apiece. Marcus McWilson had an interception, his third pick of the season, along with a career-best 10 tackles. Za'Darius Smith added a sack.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
LSU's offensive production was led by Terrence Magee, who ran for 127 yards and two touchdowns in addition to hauling in three passes for 44 yards. Quarterback Anthony Jennings was 7-14 for 120 yards and one touchdown.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
The Tigers' Tre'Davious White also returned a 67-yard punt for a touchdown in the first quarter.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
Kentucky got on the board with 1:15 left in the first quarter on an Austin MacGinnis 33-yard field goal to cut LSU's lead to 17-3. The score capped a 13-play, 66-yard drive for the Wildcat offense.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
LSU scored on the game's opening drive to give the Tigers an early 7-0 lead. The touchdown marked just the second time this season that UK has allowed a game-opening touchdown drive by its opponent.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
After the Tigers scored on their opening drive, they proceeded to score on their next two drives as well, with a field goal and a touchdown to lead 17-0. After UK's field goal to cut the deficit to 14, LSU was stopped on its three drives before scoring 10 points in the final minute to go ahead 27-3 at the half.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
The halftime deficit was the first time this season UK has trailed after 30 minutes.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, LSU
The Tigers scored two touchdowns in the third quarter, both Magee runs, for the final scores of the contest.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
A career-outing by sophomore quarterback Patrick Towles was not enough for Kentucky to pull off an upset of visiting No. 1 Mississippi State on Saturday night in front of a season-high 64,791 rabid fans in Commonwealth Stadium. Towles' career-high numbers included touchdowns (4), passing yards (390), and rushing yards (76) in the first meeting at home against a No. 1 foe since UK upset LSU in three-overtimes in 2007.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
Towles was 24-of-43 for 390 yards with two touchdowns through the air, while connecting with nine different receivers. The Ft. Thomas, Ky., native logged 76 yards on 23 attempts and a pair of scores on the ground which included a career-long rush of 48 yards in the third quarter. Towles accounted for four plays of more than 40 yards including a pair of touchdown tosses that went for 58 yards or longer.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
Senior Alvin "Bud" Dupree led the defensive charge with 10 total tackles. He accounted for 1.5 tackles for a loss including a sack in the second quarter. Dupree is six sacks shy of becoming UK's all-time career leader in that category. He also had a team-high two quarterback hurries.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
The Bulldogs were led by quarterback Dak Prescott who passed for 216 yards and a touchdown. He added 88 rushing yards and a pair of scores. Running back Josh Robinson rushed for 198 yards and two touchdowns.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
After Mississippi State drove 82-yards for a touchdown on its first possession, the Wildcats utilized a five-play 78-yard drive to counter the No. 1 team in the country. Towles found senior Demarco Robinson on a curl route to the sidelines, and he tip-toed the sideline before racing 67 yards for the score. The touchdown haul was the first of the year for Robinson and the third of his career.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
Kentucky's defense forced a three-and-out on the Bulldogs' next drive, but suffered a fumble at its own 19-yard line on its second play giving the ball back to State. UK's defense limited the Bulldogs to a 26-yard field goal giving the visitors a 10-7 lead with 2:41 remaining in the opening quarter.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
Mississippi State started the second quarter by going 68 yards over 10 plays capped by a two-yard plunge by Prescott to lift the Bulldogs to a 17-7 advantage. Kentucky answered with a 12-play, 58-yard drive of its own which ended in a 34-yard field goal by freshman Austin MacGinnis.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
With the Bulldogs driving late in the half, Dupree applied pressure to Prescott forcing a tipped pass that was intercepted by Josh Forrest with under a minute to play in the half. It was the third interception of the season by UK's middle linebacker. UK drove to State's 40-yard line and attempted a 50-yard field goal to end the half, but it missed wide right.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
Mississippi State began the second half with an 11-play, 75-yard scoring drive to take a 24-10 lead. Prescott scampered 12-yards for the score, his second rushing TD of the game.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
The Wildcats answered with an eight-play, 86-yard scoring drive. A career-long 48-yard dash by Towles highlighted the drive. The QB scurried for a 10-yard score on third down to make it 24-17 in favor of the visitors with 8:33 remaining in the third quarter. It marked the third time in Towles' career that he rushed and threw for at least one touchdown.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Missouri
The Kentucky football team's late-game comeback fell two scores short in a 20-10 loss at Missouri Saturday afternoon at Faurot Field.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Kentucky's touchdown came with 7:18 left in the game following a Missouri field goal. The Wildcats' 12-play, 8-yard drive was capped by a Javess Blue 1-yard touchdown pass from sophomore Patrick Towles. The score cut UK's deficit to 10 at 20-10.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Missouri
The Kentucky defense held Missouri to 320 total yards. Junior linebacker Josh Forrest forced his first career fumble and led UK with 10 tackles and two tackles for loss. Senior DE/LB Alvin "Bud" Dupree finished with five tackles, a career-high 2.5 tackles and 1.5 sacks.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Offensively, Towles was 19-37 for 158 yards with one touchdown and an interception. Towles hit freshman Stanley "Boom" Williams five times for 58 yards, including a long of 32 yards. Freshman Mikel Horton led UK on the ground with 62 yards on 10 attempts.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Missouri
After both teams punted twice to open the game, Missouri got on the board first with a 3-yard touchdown pass with 12:56 left in the second quarter. On the following drive, freshman Austin MacGinnis hit a 47-yard field goal to cap a four-play, 45-yard drive.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Mizzou answered on its next drive with another touchdown, a 26-yard pass from quarterback Bud Sasser, to take a 14-3 lead. The Tigers got on the board again late in the third quarter with a 41-yard field goal before another field goal with 7:23 left in the fourth quarter to make it 20-3.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Georgia
The Kentucky football team was unable to overcome an early 21-0 deficit in a 63-31 loss to No. 17 Georgia in UK's final home contest Commonwealth Stadium of the 2014 season.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Georgia
The Wildcats trailed the Bulldogs 21-0 just 10 minutes into the game, but quickly rallied back to score 24 second-quarter points to trail 35-24 at halftime. Georgia scored four unanswered touchdowns in the second half to extend its lead and clinch the verdict. UK second-quarter spurt began with a three-yard touchdown run by Braylon Heard. Heard's rush capped a 16-play, 74-yard drive that took 6:15, UK's longest scoring drive of the year in number of plays and time of possession. On the ensuing kickoff, Georgia could not gain control of the ball, and UK's J.D. Harmon recovered to give the Wildcats possession on UGA's 23-yard line. Eight plays later, Austin MacGinnis hit a 38-yard field goal.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Georgia
The Bulldogs scored a touchdown on their next drive, but the Wildcats answered. Onthe third play of the drive, Stanley "Boom" Williams found a hole and ran for a 56-yard touchdown. Williams finished the day with exactly 100 rushing yards, his second game of the season at the century mark. UK's next possession featured a 13-play, 75-yard touchdown drive capped by a 1-yard quarterback sneak by Patrick Towles. On the day, Towles passes for 139 yards, including a 9-yard TD to Javess Blue in the fourth quarter, and the UK QB also rushed for 60 net yards.


2014 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Georgia quarterback Hutson Mason threw for 174 yards and four touchdowns whiletailback Nick Chubb led all rushers with 170 yards and a TD. Isaiah McKenzie returned a kickoff and a punt for touchdowns.


2014 Kenyan National Super League
The 2014 Kenyan National Super League was the inaugural season of the Kenyan National Super League since being established on 10 July 2013, and the 51st second division season since its establishment in 1963. Competition was scheduled to begin on 8 March, but was postponed and instead began a week later on 15 March.


2014 Kenyan National Super League
A total of 24 teams, divided into 2 zones of 12 teams each, competed for the league, with 22 promoted from FKF Division One, which has since become the third tier of the Kenyan football league system after the introduction of the National Super League, and 2 teams relegated from the Kenyan Premier League. The top two teams from each zone, Kakamega Homeboyz, Nakumatt, Posta Rangers and Shabana, all gained promotion to the Premier League for the 2015 season, which is set to be contested by 18 teams, up from 16 for the 2014 season.


2014 Kenyan National Super League, League tables and results, Zone A, Positions by round (Zone A)
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.


2014 Kenyan National Super League, League tables and results, Zone B, Positions by round (Zone B)
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.


2014 Kenyan Premier League
The 2014 Kenyan Premier League (known as the Tusker Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the Kenyan Premier League since it began in 2003. It was also the 51st season of top division football in Kenya since 1963. Gor Mahia won the league title for the second consecutive season, earning a place in the preliminary round of the 2015 CAF Champions League while 2014 FKF President's Cup champions Sofapaka represented Kenya in the preliminary round of the 2014 CAF Confederation Cup. The two teams faced each other at the 2015 Kenyan Super Cup.


2014 Kenyan Premier League
A total of 16 teams competed for the league, with fourteen returning from the 2013 season and the promotion play-off winners of FKF Division One, which has since become the third tier of the Kenyan football league system after the introduction of the National Super League on 10 July 2013.


2014 Kenyan Premier League, Teams
Half of the 16 participating teams are based in the capital, Nairobi, while Bandari is the only team based at the Coast.


2014 Kenyan Premier League, Hooliganism
On 11 May 2014, the match between Thika United and A.F.C. Leopards was the season's first to be abandoned after fans of the latter invaded the pitch in the 85th minute, frustrated by their team's failure to get on the score sheet. At the time the match was called off, Thika United were leading 1–0. The KPL awarded Thika United a 2–0 victory, and A.F.C. Leopards were handed a fine of Ksh. 500,000 to be paid by 20 June 2014.


2014 Kenyan Premier League, Hooliganism
On 26 October 2014, fans of Gor Mahia turned violent at the Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos after their team's 3–2 loss to Sofapaka. Fans began throwing objects at the police after the match, and over an hour after the game both teams and a number of fans were still stranded at the stadium. Following the match, Machakos County governor Alfred Mutua released a statement on behalf of the county government, banning Gor Mahia from the stadium "until further notice", and charging them Ksh. 10 million as compensation for damage caused to public and private property.


2014 Kenyan Premier League, Hooliganism
The Football Kenya Federation then fined the club Ksh. 500,000 for the crowd trouble and ordered them to play their remaining league games behind closed doors, while Sofapaka were also fined Ksh. 300,000 for failing to place sufficient security measures in the stadium as the host team. However, in response to the sanctions imposed on Gor Mahia by the Machakos County government, the club's secretary-general Chris Omondi announced that the club would not be "paying any cent to Mutua", questioning his authority to impose a ban on the club.


2014 Kenyan Premier League, League table, Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolutions, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season
The 2014 Kerala Blasters Football Club season was the first ever season of professional football played by Kerala Blasters, since their establishment in May 2014. The  club managed to secure qualification for the Indian Super League finals on 9 December 2014, after finishing the regular season in fourth position. They managed to make it to the final, but were defeated by Atlético de Kolkata through a stoppage time goal.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season
The Blasters signed the former England international, David James, as their first ever coach in August. They also drafted in India internationals such as Mehtab Hossain, Sandip Nandy, Chinadorai Sabeeth, Renedy Singh, Ishfaq Ahmed, and Nirmal Chettri. The Blasters also selected an international foreign player, Canadian international Iain Hume before signing on former Scottish internationals Jamie McAllister and Stephen Pearson outside the draft.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season
After starting the season with five straight away games, the Blasters found themselves with only four points. Once the team started playing home games they gained 11 points from the next five games. Another 4 points from their final four games were enough for the team to qualify for the finals. The finals started off very well for Kerala Blasters as they defeated Chennaiyin 3–0 away from home in the first leg of the semi-finals. Despite giving up that lead in the second-leg, an extra-time goal from Stephen Pearson ensured that the Blasters qualified for the final. In the final, the club were defeated 1–0 by Atlético de Kolkata through a last-minute strike by Mohammed Rafique.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Background
In early 2014, it was announced that the All India Football Federation, the national federation for football in India, and IMG–Reliance would be accepting bids for ownership of eight of the nine selected cities for the inaugural Indian Super League (ISL), a franchise tournament modelled along the lines of the Indian Premier League for cricket. On 13 April 2014 it was announced that the rights to the Kerala franchise were won by former India cricket captain, Sachin Tendulkar, and serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and educationalist, Prasad V Potluri. Then, on 27 May 2014, the team's official name was unveiled as 'Kerala Blasters FC' which is based on the nickname of co-owner Sachin Tendular, 'Master Blaster'.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Background
Selection of the players for the first season started on 22 July when the Blasters, along with the other seven franchises, took part in the domestic draft to select the first fourteen Indian players in each team. India international Mehtab Hossain was the first draft pick made by Kerala Blasters and thus the first player in Kerala Blasters history. At the end of the draft, the Blasters were composed of fourteen players, including Hossain: Avinabo Bag, Sandip Nandy, Chinadorai Sabeeth, Luis Barreto, Milagres Gonsalves, Ramandeep Singh, Renedy Singh, Ishfaq Ahmed, Gurwinder Singh, Nirmal Chettri, Sushanth Mathew, and Godwin Franco.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Background
On 13 August 2014, former England international goalkeeper, David James was announced as the first head coach of the club and the first marquee player in team history, thus coming in as a player-head coach. Then, on 21 August 2014, the team participated in the international draft in which each team selected seven foreign players to join their team. Former Newcastle United forward Michael Chopra was the first foreign player drafted by the Blasters.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Indian Super League
The Kerala Blasters began their first ever season away from home against NorthEast United on 13 October. A goal from Koke lead to the Blasters losing that match 1–0 to open the season. Their second match was no better as the Kerala Blasters lost their second match of the season to Chennaiyin 2–1. Despite Canadian international Iain Hume scoring the first goal in Blasters history, Chennaiyin managed to grab the victory through goals from Elano and Bernard Mendy. The winless streak continued for the Kerala Blasters as they headed into their third match against Atlético de Kolkata.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Indian Super League
An equalizer from Iain Hume meant that the Blasters managed to draw the match 1–1 and thus earn their first ever point. The draw helped propel the momentum for the Kerala Blasters as they ended their first month of competitive football with their first ever victory against Pune City. The Blasters fell behind in the match early through a David Trezeguet goal in the 15th minute but Chinadorai Sabeeth managed to level the score in the 41st minute, becoming the first Indian player to score for the team ever. It was then Penn Orji who scored the winning goal in the 65th minute as the Kerala Blasters won 2–1.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Indian Super League
The team then began what would be a long month of November for the team as they would have to play eight matches. Their first match came on 2 November against Mumbai City in Mumbai. The Blasters fell in the match 1–0 after Nicolas Anelka scored for Mumbai City from a free-kick. The team then returned to Kerala to play their first home game of the season of a three-game home stand against FC Goa on 6 November.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Indian Super League
After a goalless first half, it was Milagres Gonsalves who came up with the winning goal for the Kerala Blasters in the 64th minute as the Blasters won 1–0. Despite the opening home victory, the Kerala Blasters were unable to do more than achieve 0–0 in their next two matches against the Delhi Dynamos and Mumbai City respectively.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Indian Super League
After their three-match home stand, the Kerala Blasters returned to the road as the took on the Delhi Dynamos in Delhi. A 61st-minute goal from Penn Orji was enough as the Blasters won the away tie 1–0. Five days later, the Blasters returned home to take on Atlético de Kolkata. Early goals from Iain Hume and Pedro Gusmão helped lead the Kerala Blasters to a 2–1 victory of the Kolkata side. The joy from the victory was short-lived though as the Kerala Blasters ended the month losing two matches in a row. Their first defeat occurred away from home to FC Goa on 26 November. A brace from Miroslav Slepička and another goal from André Santos lead to the Blasters losing 3–0. That defeat was followed with a 1–0 defeat at home to Chennaiyin.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Indian Super League
With just two matches left before the finals entering December, the Kerala Blasters knew the two matches would be crucial for their season. Their first match occurred on 4 December against NorthEast United. Despite creating many chances upfront, the Blasters were held to a 0–0 result. That result meant that the final match of the regular season, at home to Pune City, would prove to be the decider between the two sides to see who qualifies for the finals. Due to a free-kick goal from Iain Hume and a fantastic performance from Sandip Nandy in goal, the Kerala Blasters came out victorious 1–0 and thus qualified for the finals.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Indian Super League finals, Final
The Kerala Blasters entered the finals as the fourth seed from the regular season and thus had to face the first seed, Chennaiyin in the semi-finals. The first leg of the semi-final turned out to be the Blasters' best offensive performance of the season as they came away with the 3–0 advantage. Ishfaq Ahmed scored the first goal for Kerala in the 27th minute before Iain Hume doubled the lead in the 29th minute. The match was set to finish 2–0 before Sushanth Mathew fired home the third goal for the Kerala Blasters.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Indian Super League finals, Final
Despite having the advantage, the Blasters found themselves giving it away in Chennai. Strikes from Mikaël Silvestre and Jeje Lalpekhlua, as well as an own goal from Sandesh Jhingan saw the match end 3–0 to Chennaiyin and thus require extra-time to decide the tie. The match looked set to be going to penalties but it was Stephen Pearson who broke the deadlock in the 117th minute and send the Kerala Blasters into the final.


2014 Kerala Blasters FC season, Indian Super League finals, Final
The final of the Indian Super League took place at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai against Atlético de Kolkata. The match remained at 0–0 until the very final minute of second stoppage time when Mohammed Rafique scored for Kolkata and thus take the title away from the Kerala Blasters.


2014 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards
The 2014 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award was announced on 29 February 2016.


2014 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series
The 2014 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series was an Australian motor racing competition open to Sports Sedans and Trans Am style cars. It was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as a National Series and was the eleventh National Series for Sports Sedans contested following the discontinuation of the Australian Sports Sedan Championship at the end of 2003. The 2014 series was won by Tony Ricciardello driving an Alfa Romeo GTV.


2014 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Calendar
The 2014 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series was contested over five rounds.


2014 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Calendar
The results for each round were determined by the number of points scored by each driver at that round.


2014 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Points system
Series points were awarded to drivers for their outright finishing positions in each race on the following basis:


2014 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Series standings
Race two at Phillip Island was cancelled due to an accident and no points were awarded.


2014 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Class TA award
Reference was made in the sporting regulations regarding a Class TA award  however results for this were not included with the official published series points table.


2014 Kerry County Council election
An election to Kerry County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 33 councillors were elected from four local electoral areas (LEAs) by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office. This is a reduction of LEA and an increase in 6 seats compared to 2009. In addition Killarney Town Council, Listowel Town Council and Tralee Town Council were all abolished.


2014 Kerry County Council election
Fianna Fáil emerged as the largest party on the council after the elections gaining 2 additional seats, 1 in Listowel and 1 in the Killarney LEA. The party ended up with 9 seats, the same numbers as Fine Gael, who lost 1 seat overall, and who were also slightly behind Fianna Fáil in terms of first preference votes. Sinn Féin had an excellent election, winning 5 seats overall and 4 in North Kerry where had they run a third candidate in Tralee they would have won a third seat.


2014 Kerry County Council election
Labour had a very bad election losing half of their seats and both councillors returned were elected for the Tralee LEA. Michael Gleeson of SKIA retained his seat as did both the Healy-Rae's and Independents returned 7 councillors overall, 8 including SKIA. The Listowel results were subject to a full recount in 2016.


2014 Kerry County Council election, Results by Electoral Area, Listowel
A full recount began of the ballots for the Listowel LEA on 10 February 2016. This followed a court case taken by Dan Kiely, who ended the original count within five votes of two elected candidates. Voters filled in the ballot for the 2014 European Parliament election simultaneously with the local election ballot, and some put preferences 1-2-3 on one ballot and 4-5-6 on the other. The returning officers' official guidelines advised to accept the latter ballots, but the Supreme Court ruled they were invalid under Article 80(2) of the Local Election Regulations 1995.


2014 Kerry County Council election, Results by Electoral Area, Listowel
When the "count afresh" began, "at least 10 ballots" were excluded based on the Supreme Court ruling. Candidates' counting agents  scrutinised about 300 "doubtful" ballot papers; 32 on which they could not agree were taken under Garda Síochána escort to Limerick, where a Circuit Court judge ruled 14 of them invalid. After the eleventh and final count, in the early hours of 12 February, the same seven candidates had been returned as in 2014, with Kiely four votes behind Moloney.


2014 Kerry Senior Football Championship
The 2014 Kerry Senior Football Championship is the 113th edition of the Kerry GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Kerry, Ireland. The tournament consists of 20 teams, with the winner going on to represent Kerry in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship, unless they are a divisional club. In this case, the winner of the Kerry Club Football Championship will represent the county. The championship has a back-door format for the first two rounds before proceeding to a knock-out format. Generally, any team to lose two matches will be knocked out of the championship.


2014 Kerry Senior Football Championship
Dr. Crokes were the defending champions after they defeated Austin Stacks in the previous years final, however they lost their crown when losing to town rivals Killarney Legion at the Third Round stage.


2014 Kerry Senior Football Championship
This was Currow's first period in the senior grade after claiming the 2013 Kerry Intermediate Football Championship title. For this year they didn't supply players to the St. Kieran's divisional side. However they were relegated after losing to Kilcummin so they will return to the I.F.C. for 2015 and will once again supply players to the St. Kieran's divisional side.


2014 Kerry Senior Football Championship
On 2 November 2014, Austin Stacks claimed their 12th S.F.C. title (equalling Laune Rangers' record) after a 2-13 to 1-7 win over Mid Kerry in a final replay in Fitzgerald Stadium. Barry Shanahan raised the Bishop Moynihan Trophy for Austin Stacks while Kieran Donaghy claimed the 'Man of the Match' award.


2014 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2013 championship season.


2014 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Results, Round 1
All 20 clubs enter at this stage. Winners proceed to Round 3 while losers must play in Round 2.


2014 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Results, Round 2
10 losers from Round 1 play against each other in this round. The winners proceed to Round 3 while the losers which are not divisional sides must enter a relegation playoff.


2014 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Results, Round 3
The 5 Round 2 winners join the 10 Round 1 winners in this round. One of these clubs receive a bye to the Quarter-Finals.


2014 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoff
The Round 2 losers which are not divisional sides contest the relegation playoff. The loser of the relegation final will be relegated to the 2015 Kerry I.F.C.


2014 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship
The 2014 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship is the 113th staging of the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kerry County Board in 1889. The championship began on 19 July 2014 and ended on 11 October 2014.


2014 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship
St. Brendan's were the defending champions, however, they were defeated in the semi-final after a replay. Lixnaw won the title following a 1-12 to 0-12 defeat of Kilmoyley in the final.


2014 Khairpur bus crash
On 11 November 2014, a bus collided with a goods truck near Khairpur at the Theri Bypass, killing 56 people. Of the 56 killed, 18 were children 21 were women, and 17 were men.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Accident
The bus was traveling from Swat to Karachi when it collided with the truck at the Theri Bypass (which connects the Khairpur and Sukkur districts). The exact cause of the crash is not known. Initial reports by local media stated that the driver of the bus was trying to overtake another vehicle and rammed into a truck coming from the opposite side. However, according to a traffic police official, the bus was about to take to the road after getting fuel from a filling station when it hit a speeding truck. According to Ghulam Jhokhio, the cause of the accident was most likely because of heavy fog. Other reports state the bus driver fell asleep while driving and hit a driver headed the opposite direction.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Aftermath
The injured were transported to Khairpur civil hospital for medical attention. Three of the injured were reported to be in critical condition.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Reaction
Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan offered condolence over the accident. President Mamnoon Hussain expressed grief over the accident. Sindh Province Governor Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan expressed his condolences to the family members of the victims.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Controversy
This was the most high-profile accident in Pakistan. Initially the National Highway and Motorway Police officers blamed the National Highway Authority (NHA)for the terrible road condition as a major cause of the accident in unofficial television reports. A formal NH&MP police report from the SSPs office was filed a few days later which pinned a significant blame on National Highway Authority. Subsequently, a formal FIR was filed by the district Sindh Police SHO Afzal Khan Yousufzai implicating four NHA officers on an act of criminal negligence. Legal proceedings began in Sukkhur court.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Controversy
The Commissioner Sukkhur also conducted a very detailed inquiry of the incident. His findings replicated the police findings to a major extent citing poor road condition and the presence of illegal U-turns, unmarked diversions, and an unmarked road hump on the road which caused the bus to topple over and trespass into the northbound where it collided with an oncoming coal carrying truck.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Controversy
The Federal Ombudsman of Pakistan also took notice of the issue and ordered its own inquiry on the matter. Significant time had passed since the accident, but the comprehensive inquiry was studied all previous inquiries on the accident and did groundwork study with the survivors, finally coming to the conclusion that the road hump played a role in toppling the bus and diverting it onto the oncoming traffic.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Controversy
The National Highway Authority, led by Chairman Shahid Ashraf Tarrar and their legal expert Col(R) Azim challenged the findings in court. They claimed that the road hump had no role to play in the accident.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Controversy
The issue was taken into the Parliament of Pakistan, and a forensic expert team was assigned the task through Ministry of Communication through its Parliamentary representative Mr. Alam Jan Laleka.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Controversy
The Forensic team was led by Dr. Omer Masood Qureshi, Director of Automotive Design and safety lab at the Institute of space technology. The findings of this report studied the structure of the bus, suspension components, gauges, speedometers, brake pedals, gear shafts, under microscopic failure analysis techniques and determined that the bus did indeed overturn prior to the accident, However the suspension did not show any signs of pre collision damage prior to overturning. The leafs spring positions also did not indicate that the bus hit a road hump big enough to overturn the bus.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Controversy
The road survey by Automotive Design and Safety lab team however, did indicate the presence of a road hump which was removed in the evening of 11 November 2014. Forensic scrutiny of EXIF data of photographs provided by both parties indicated that. However, certain chips, chops and metallic grooves on the road indicated that the bus did not collide with the road hump,  the driver of the bus turned the vehicle on an illegal diversion, misjudging the speed and the diversion,  the vehicle came onto the northbound road where there was two way traffic. High CG due to overloading and a sharp left turn caused the vehicle to topple over at high speed and hit the oncoming overloaded truck.


2014 Khairpur bus crash, Controversy
The findings of the last report were accepted in the hearing by Wafaqi Mohtasib.


2014 Khalilabad derailment
On 26 May 2014, an express train travelling from Gorakhpur town to Hisar collided with a stationary goods train at Chureb railway station in Khalilabad north India, killing at least 40 people and injuring another 150. Prime-minister-elect Narendra Modi expressed his condolences at the time, on Twitter.


2014 Khalilabad derailment
My condolences to families of those who lost their lives in the Gorakhdham express tragedy. Prayers with the injured.


2014 Kids' Choice Awards
The 27th Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards was held on March 29, 2014, at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, California. Actor Mark Wahlberg hosted the ceremony. The "Orange Carpet" was set up in front of Galen Center on the sidewalks of Jefferson Boulevard. The show was broadcast on Nickelodeon from 8 p.m. to 9:36 p.m. ET/PT and tape delayed for the West Coast in the United States and Canada, along with the rest of Nickelodeon's international channels, some of which contributed locally based awards and local segments tying into the American broadcast. Voting was available worldwide on seventeen voting websites in various nations and regions, along with mobile voting depending on region. The "Kids’ Choice Awards Orange Carpet pre-show" was webcast prior to the presentation of the awards.


2014 Kids' Choice Sports
The 1st Annual Kids' Choice Sports was held on July 17, 2014, at the Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. Hall of Fame Athlete/Talk Show host Michael Strahan hosted the ceremony to celebrate kids’ favorites in the sports world. The show aired on Nickelodeon from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, tape delayed for West Coast in the United States and Canada. When this award show aired, Nickelodeon took their other channels (with the exception of Nick Jr.) off the air with a message telling people to go watch the awards show on the main channel.


2014 Kids' Choice Sports, Sports Council
A Kids' Choice Sports Council was formed to "lend their expertise and experience to help inform the awards show, consult on the nominee process and give feedback on categories." Committee members are:


2014 Kildare County Council election
An election to Kildare County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 40 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office, an increase in 15 seats compared to 2009. In addition Athy Town Council, Leixlip Town Council, Naas Town Council and Newbridge Town Council were all abolished.


2014 Kildare County Council election
In recognition of its major population growth in recent times Kildare was allocated 15 additional council seats. This helped to insulate both Government parties somewhat from anti-Government hostility that lead to seat losses in other counties. Fine Gael returned 9 seats, as they did in 2009 and Labour returned with 5 councillors, a loss of 1 seat in the Kildare-Newbridge LEA. Fianna Fáil emerged as the big winners doubling their seats to 12 and becoming the largest party. The party won 3 seats in each of Kildare-Newbridge, Maynooth and in Naas. Sinn Féin won a seat in each LEA, returning to County Hall for the first time since 1999. Independents also gained 5 seats to have a total membership of 9.


2014 Kildare Senior Hurling Championship
The 2014 Kildare Senior Hurling Championship was the 117th staging of the Kildare Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kildare County Board in 1888. The championship began on XXX and ended on 5 October 2014.


2014 Kildare Senior Hurling Championship
Celbridge were the defending champions, however, they failed to retain the title. Coill Dubh won the championship following a 3-11 to 0-16 defeat of Celbridge in the final.


2014 Kilkenny County Council election
An election to Kilkenny County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 24 councillors were elected from three electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office, a reduction of 2 seats from the previous election in 2009. In addition the Kilkenny Borough Council was abolished.


2014 Kilkenny County Council election
Fianna Fáil became the largest party after the elections securing 10 Council seats, a gain of 3. Fine Gael, by contrast, had a very poor set of results and lost 5 of their Council seats returning with 7 seats in all. Sinn Féin broke through in the county winning 3 seats, while Labour retained just 2 seats on the Council. Malcolm Noonan of the Greens was re-elected in Kilkenny city and Independents secured the final seat.


2014 Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 2014 Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 49th staging of the Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board in 1929. The championship began on 13 September 2014 and ended on 9 November 2014.


2014 Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship
On 9 November 2014, Mullinavat won the championship after a 0-17 to 0-14 victory over St. Patrick's Ballyragget in the final at Nowlan Park. It was their fourth title overall and their first title since 2006.


2014 Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship
Tullogher-Rosbercon's Cian O'Donoghue was the championship's top scorer with 3-22.


2014 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
The 2014 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 120th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment in by the Kilkenny County Board in 1887. The championship began on 11 October 2014 and ended on 16 November 2014.


2014 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
Clara were the defending champions. Tullaroan were relegated from the championship. Ballyhale Shamrocks won the championship following a 1-20 to 1-13 defeat of Clara.


2014 King Cup
The 2014 King Cup, or The Custodian of The Two Holy Mosques Cup, was the 39th season of King Cup since its establishment in 1957, and the 7th under the current edition. Al-Ittihad was the defending champion but was eliminated by Al-Ahli in semi-finals.


2014 King Cup
Unlike the previous seasons where only eight teams participated, this season's competition featured a total of 32 teams. 14 teams of Pro league and 16 teams of 1st Division, and 2 teams qualifying from preliminary stage.


2014 King Cup
The final was held at the King Abdullah Sports City, in Jeddah. Al-Shabab won  their third title after beating Al-Ahli 3–0.


2014 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
The 2014 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes was a horse race held at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday 26 July 2014. It was the 64th King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.


2014 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
The winner was the Hamdan Al Maktoum's Taghrooda, a three-year-old bay filly trained at Newmarket, Suffolk by John Gosden and ridden by Paul Hanagan. Taghrooda's victory was the first for her jockey and the second for Gosden after Nathaniel in 2011. Hamdan Al Maktoum had previously won the race with Nashwan in 1989. Taghrooda was the first three-year-old filly to win the race since Pawneese in 1976.


2014 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The contenders
The race attracted eight runners, five from England and three from Ireland. There were no challengers from continental Europe after the French colt Flintshire was withdrawn two days before the race. John Gosden fielded three runners: the Epsom Oaks winners Taghrooda, the King Edward VII Stakes winner Eagle Top and Romsdal, who had finished third in the Epsom Derby. The other British contenders were Mukhadram, the five-year-old winner of the Eclipse Stakes and the Michael Stoute-trained four-year-old Telescope, winner of the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot. Ireland was represented by the Breeders' Cup Turf winner Magician and the 2013 Irish Derby winner Trading Leather who was accompanied by his pacemaker Leitir Mor. Telescope was made the 5/2 favourite ahead of Taghrooda (7/2) Eagle Top (4/1) and Magician (9/2).


2014 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The race
Leitir Mor set the pace as expected from Mukhadram and Telescope, followed by Romsdal, Trading Leather, Magician, Taghrooda and Eagle Top. When Leitir Mor began to weaken with half a mile to run Mukhadram went to the front and led the field into the straight from Telescope as Taghrooda began to make rapid progress. Mukhadram and Telescope engaged in a protracted struggle throughout the final quarter mile, but Taghrooda moved up on the outside to take the advantage inside the final furlong and drew away to win easily by three lengths.


2014 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The race
Telescope beat Mukhadram by a short head for second, with Eagle Top staying on to finish fourth. There was a gap of six lengths back to Trading Leather who finished fifth ahead of Magician and Romsdal, with Leitir Mor being ৳eased down in the closing stages to finish last of the eight runners.


2014 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Subsequent breeding careers
Leading progeny of participants in the 2014 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.


2014 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Subsequent breeding careers, Stallions
Magician (6th) - Cardini (3rd Champagne Stakes 2018)Mukhadram (3rd) - Romsey (3rd Premio Dormello 2019)Telescope (2nd) - Minor flat runnersEagle Top (4th) - Exported to Czech RepublicLeitir Mor (8th) - Exported to India


2014 King's Cup (Bhutan)
The 2014 King's Cup is a football tournament that took place from 15 November 2014 to 2 December 2014. The tournament was held in Thimphu, Bhutan at the Changlimithang Stadium. The Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club won the championship.


2014 King's Cup (Bhutan), Group stage
The nine participants were divided into two groups. The top two teams for each group qualified for the semifinals. Osotspa F.C. of Thailand was set to participate at the tournament and was included in Group B. Osotspa withdrew and was replaced by Pune F.C. of India.


2014 King's Cup (Bhutan), Team statistics
This table will show the ranking of teams throughout the tournament.


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


2014 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, Results
The Conservative Party gained control from the Liberal Democrats. The Conservatives won 28 seats (+7), the Liberal Democrats won 18 seats (-9) and Labour won 2 seats (+2).


2014 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Canbury
Rebekah Moll was a sitting councillor, but for Grove ward.


2014 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Canbury
Timothy Dennen was elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2010.


2014 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Grove
Stephen Brister was a sitting councillor, but for Norbiton ward.


2014 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Norbiton
Sheila Griffin was a Labour councillor prior to 2010, when she stood as an Independent. Changes in her vote share are from her performance as an Independent in 2010, rather than the Labour candidate.


2014 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, By-elections: 2014–2018
A by-election was held in Tudor ward following the resignation of Frank Thompson.


2014 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, By-elections: 2014–2018
A by-election was held in St James ward following the death of Howard Jones.


2014 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, By-elections: 2014–2018
A by-election was held in Grove ward following the resignation of Stephen Brister.


2014 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, By-elections: 2014–2018
A by-election was held in Tolworth and Hook Rise ward following the resignation of Vicki Harris.


2014 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election, By-elections: 2014–2018
A by-election was held in Grove ward following the death of Chrissie Hitchcock.


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


2014 Kiss of Love protest
Kiss of Love protest was a non-violent protest against moral policing which started  in Kerala, India, and later spread to other parts of India.


2014 Kiss of Love protest
The movement began when a Facebook page called Kiss of Love called forth the youth across Kerala to participate in a protest against moral policing on November 2, 2014, at Marine Drive, Cochin. The movement received widespread support with more than 154,404 followers on its Facebook page. After the initial protest in Kochi, similar protests were organised in other major cities of the country.


2014 Kiss of Love protest
It received opposition from various religious and political groups like Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, SDPI, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal and  Hindu Sena. On specific occasions but not exclusively, both the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court have made it clear that kissing in public is not an obscene act and no criminal proceedings can be initiated for kissing in public through a series of landmark judgments.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Background
There were several instances of moral policing in Kerala in the 2000s. In 2011, a 26-year-old youth was killed by a mob in Kodiyathur, Kerala, for allegedly having an affair with a married woman.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Background
All of the accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2014. In June 2014, a female theatre artiste and her male colleague were detained in police custody for traveling together at night, which stirred protests against moral policing on social media. In July 2013, police arrested a couple from a beach in Alappuzha for suspected “immoral activity” as the woman was not wearing any accessories to suggest that she was married.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Background
In April 2013, an artist from Kochi was harassed by two policewomen when she went for a stroll on Marine Drive with a male friend. In June 2012,  a gang of men attacked and beat up a pregnant woman sitting alone in a bus shelter in Kannur.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Background
The woman's husband had asked her to rest while  he went to a nearby ATM since she was heavily pregnant. In June 2011, An IT professional, on her way to work at Kochi's IT park, was accosted by a group of drunken men because she was riding pillion on a male colleague's bike. The drunken men argued with her, and then abused and slapped her. Several similar cases have been reported throughout Kerala.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Background
The Kiss of Love protest was sparked off in October 2014 when Jai Hind TV, a Malayalam news channel owned by the Indian National Congress, telecast an exclusive report on alleged immoral activity at the parking space of Downtown Cafe in Kozhikode. The video showed a young couple kissing and hugging each other. A mob of attackers, who were later identified as belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha vandalized the cafe following the report. Following this, a group of friends from a Facebook page called 'Freethinkers', started the Facebook page 'Kiss of Love'. Activists from all over Kerala decided to protest against the series of moral policing incidents by organizing a public event at Marine Drive beach on November 2 in Kochi.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Beginning
On 2 November 2014, several activists gathered at Marine Drive, Kochi to express solidarity to the movement against moral policing. A peaceful march was planned from the campus of Ernakulam Law College to the venue during which the police took around 50 activists into preventive custody citing law and order issues. Various religious and political groups also gathered in the protest ground to physically prevent the activists from kissing and hugging in public.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Beginning
Kerala Police was criticized for its failure to control the whole event. Police did not try to stop the counter protestors, including Shiv Sena, SDPI and Bajrang Dal members, from entering the protest venue even though many of the Shiv Sainiks were armed with canes to attack and forcefully remove the Kiss of Love protestors. Also, none of the counter protestors were removed even though they tried to physically stop the Kiss of Love protestors from legally protesting. Police later claimed that they arrested the Kiss of Love protestors to save the protestors' lives


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Further Activities
The protest was very popular on social networking sites and news media. The opposing groups allegedly compelled the Facebook authorities block the Kiss of Love page through mass reporting on November 3. The profile pages of all of the administrators were blocked as well. One of the administrators said that the page had 50,000 members at the time of blocking. The page was reinstated later that day and the number of members soon crossed 75,000. Supporters of the campaign have been posting pictures of them kissing on social networking sites.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Further Activities
Kollam-based women's rights activist Resmi R Nair was the co-founder and spokesperson of Kiss of Love protest. Another activist Rehana Fathima also participated in the protest along with her partner film-maker Manoj K Sreedhar.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Further Activities
A group of students at Maharaja's College, Ernakulam protested against moral policing by conducting an event named 'Hug of Love'. All the participants were later suspended for 10 days by the college authorities for violating the 'code of conduct'.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Further Activities
Another group of students from Government Law college Kozhikode Organized an event called Hug Of Love on 10/12/2014.Authorities took this as an act of indiscipline and served show cause notice to participants


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Further Activities
A protest against moral policing in Thiruvananthapuram with kisses and hugs under the banner 'kiss against fascism' was conducted in front of the Kairali theatre complex during the 19th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) on 13 December 2014.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Kiss In The Streets
A Kiss protest dubbed as 'Kiss In The Streets' was organised on 7 December in Kozhikode. Right wing opponents of the kiss protest issued threats before the event, stating that protestors would be stripped naked in public, if they attempt to kiss. The event was marred by violence towards the protestors by Shiv Sena and Hanuman Sena. Police resorted to caning and took the Kiss of Love protestors and their opponents into preventive custody. Protestors accused that Kerala Police were more brutal than the right wing assailants.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Outside Kerala
The event gathered support from educational institutions outside of Kerala including University of Hyderabad, JNU Delhi, IISER Kolkata, Pondicherry University, IIT Madras and IIT Bombay. Students from Jadavpur University and Presidency University, Kolkata have organised similar protests against moral policing in Kolkata on 5 November 2014. The Kolkata chapter also protested against the authorities of north Kolkata's Star Theatre for allegedly refusing entry to a 17-year-old girl because she was dressed in a skirt.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Outside Kerala
On November 8, a group of protestors demonstrated by kissing and hugging outside RSS headquarters in Delhi. While JNU students were at the forefront, there were representatives from several universities in the city like Delhi University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Ambedkar University Delhi and National Law University. Hindu Sena members arrived on the scene stating that the “ Western culture  was corrupting and degrading Indian culture”. Hindu Sena members tried to physically attack kissing couples.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Outside Kerala
On November 9, a similar protest was organised by students in JNU campus, in solidarity with those who courted police action at the ‘Kiss of Love’ event in Kochi on November 2. A Kiss of Love event that was scheduled for 30 November in Bengaluru was cancelled when permission for protest was denied by Bengaluru Police.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Legality
Section 294(a) of Indian Penal Code states that "Whoever, to the annoyance of others, does any obscene act in any public place shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine, or with both. IPC does not define the word 'obscene', hence it is interpreted differently by different authorities. The Supreme court has noted that "`obscenity' should be gauged with respect to contemporary community standards".


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Legality
The court has also observed that the “standards of contemporary society in India are…fast changing” in Chandrakant Kalyandas Kakodar vs The State Of Maharashtra 1969. Regarding 'contemporary community standards', the Supreme court has noted that it is not “the standard of a group of susceptible or sensitive persons” that can be held as the standard of the community, in Aveek Sarkar vs State of West Bengal 2014.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Legality
Regarding social morality, the Supreme court has observed that “Notions of social morality are inherently subjective and the criminal law cannot be used as a means to unduly interfere with the domain of personal autonomy” in Khushboo vs Kanniamal 2010. Now with regards to kissing and hugging in public places, the Supreme Court of India has made it clear that 'no case can be made out' of two people consensually hugging and/or kissing. Supreme Court gave this verdict in response to a petition filed by actor Richard Gere to quash the arrest warrant issued by a Jaipur court. The arrest warrant was issued  after the actor had taken Shilpa Shetty in his embrace and kissed her on the cheek at an AIDS awareness programme. A verdict by Delhi High Court has also made it clear that kissing in public is not a criminal offence.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Opposition
Kiss of Love was met with opposition and criticism from certain sections of Indian society. Several religious and political groups like Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, SDPI, Sunni Yuvajana Sangham, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, Hindu Sena, Campus Front, Samastha Kerala Sunni Yuvajana Sanghom, Pattali Makkal Katchi, Hindu Makkal Katchi and Ernakulam wing of Kerala Students Union opposed this movement. These opposing groups claimed that public display of affection is against both Indian culture and the law of the land (under section 294 of the Indian Penal Code). The Kerala State Women's Commission opposed Kiss of Love stating that it was against the culture of Kerala.


2014 Kiss of Love protest, Opposition
The proposed Kiss of Love event in Bengaluru received opposition from several quarters. Manjula Manasa, chairperson of the Karnataka State Women's Commission described the event as uncivilized. Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, several Congress and BJP leaders and various Hindutva proponents too opposed it. Bengaluru Police refused to give permission for the event stating that kissing is an obscene act. Pramod Muthalik of Sri Ram Sena, the organization behind 2009 Mangalore pub attack, has even threatened to take the law into his hands if the campaign is held.


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


2014 Knoxville Challenger
The 2014 Knoxville Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Knoxville, United States between 4 and 9 November 2014.


2014 Knoxville Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Knoxville Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry as a special exemption into the singles main draw:


2014 Knoxville Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry as an alternate into the singles main draw:


2014 Knoxville Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as lucky losers:


2014 Knoxville Challenger – Doubles
Samuel Groth and John-Patrick Smith were the defending champions, but Groth and John-Patrick Smith chose not to compete. Miķelis Lībietis and Hunter Reese won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Gastao Elias Sean Thornley.


2014 Knoxville Challenger – Singles
Tim Smyczek was the defending champion, but he lost to Sam Groth in the semifinals. Adrian Mannarino won the tournament, defeating Sam Groth 3–6, 7–6(8–6). 6–4 in the final.


2014 Kobalt 400
The 2014 Kobalt 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on March 9, 2014, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 miles (2.4 km) asphalt tri-oval, it was the third race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Brad Keselowski won the race, his first win of the season, after Dale Earnhardt, Jr. ran out of fuel half a lap from the finish. Earnhardt, Jr. still finished second, while Paul Menard, Joey Logano, and Carl Edwards rounded out the top five. The top rookies of the race were Austin Dillon (16th), Kyle Larson (19th), and Michael Annett (29th).


2014 Kobalt 400, Previous week's race
Kevin Harvick held off Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in the final nine laps to score victory in The Profit on CNBC 500 at Phoenix International Raceway. Harvick praised his Stewart-Haas Racing team for the efforts in the early part of the season, since his move from Richard Childress Racing, stating "to add an extra team, bring in a bunch of new guys, new driver, Rodney Childers has just done a phenomenal job of putting this team together. These guys all want to win that is why they came here".


2014 Kobalt 400, Previous week's race
He added that he was "really happy" with the engine that had been provided by Hendrick Motorsports. Earnhardt, Jr. was disappointed to miss out on the victory, stating that he "would have loved to have won the race, am a little disappointed to have come that close", but like Harvick, praised his team for their performances, adding that they have "a lot of great chemistry and good communication going back and forth. Everybody's confidence is very high. Everybody's mood and morale is really high".


2014 Kobalt 400, Report, Background
The track, Las Vegas Motor Speedway is a four-turn, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) D-shaped oval track that has sanctioned NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events since 1996. After being reconfigured in 2007, the track has a 20° banking in each of the turns, while the rounded front stretch and the back straightaway has a 9° banking. The front stretch, the location of the finish line, is 2,275 feet (693 m) long, 703 feet (214 m) longer than the back straightaway. Las Vegas Motor Speedway also has a grandstand seating capacity of 138,000 people. Matt Kenseth was the defending winner of the race.


2014 Kobalt 400, Report, Entry list
The entry list for the Kobalt 400 was released on Thursday, March 6 at 3:08 p.m. Eastern time. Forty-eight cars were entered for the race.


2014 Kobalt 400, Practice, First practice
Carl Edwards was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.128 and a speed of 191.980 mph (308.962 km/h).


2014 Kobalt 400, Qualifying
The race was the first to use the three-round knockout format for 1.25 miles (2.00 km) and longer tracks.


2014 Kobalt 400, Qualifying
Joey Logano won the pole with a new track record time of 27.939 and a speed of 193.278 mph (311.051 km/h), leading a Team Penske front row ahead of Brad Keselowski. Logano stated that to "have a Penske front row the last two weekends at two completely different race tracks just goes to show how hard these guys have been working", while also stating that the team "obviously haven't won on Sunday yet, so we've got to figure out the big show, but we've had some good speed in our cars".


2014 Kobalt 400, Qualifying
Keselowski added that his car needed "a little bit more in race trim", and that he would "get a better idea and read for that tomorrow when we get back in race trim, but qualifying trim I think we've got our cars really refined well for this package and I'm very proud of where we're at".


2014 Kobalt 400, Qualifying
The issue of cool down laps came up again since NASCAR does not allow teams to use cool down units. Clint Bowyer stated that he was "not a huge fan of the cool down deal", and hoped NASCAR would look into the situation in regards to the closing speeds on track. Kasey Kahne cut a tire down on his cool down lap. Upon exiting his car, Kahne felt that "NASCAR doesn't have enough people to make a call that we can change it" and that he "sat there and waited and we didn't get to cool our car down". Dave Blaney, Landon Cassill, Blake Koch, Joe Nemechek and J. J. Yeley failed to qualify.


2014 Kobalt 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice
Brian Vickers was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 28.579 and a speed of 188.950 mph (304.086 km/h).


2014 Kobalt 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice
Jamie McMurray was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.886 and a speed of 186.942 mph (300.854 km/h).


2014 Kobalt 400, Race, First half
The race began at 3:20 p.m. when Joey Logano led the field to the green flag. The first caution of the race flew on lap 17 after Josh Wise's engine expired on the backstretch. Brad Keselowski stayed out when the leaders pitted and assumed the lead for the restart on lap 23. Immediately thereafter, Keselowski spun his tires and lost the lead to teammate Logano. Debris in turn 3 brought out the second caution of the race on lap 45.


2014 Kobalt 400, Race, First half
Jimmie Johnson took just two tires, and beat Logano in the race off pit road, and led the field to the restart on lap 50. Kyle Busch took the lead from Johnson on lap 77 and held the lead to the next round of pit stops, on lap 96. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. inherited the lead for a lap before he pitted, when the lead returned to Busch. Busch retained the lead to almost half distance, when Kevin Harvick took the lead on lap 130. He held the lead until his next pit stop on lap 140.


2014 Kobalt 400, Race, Second half
Busch, Keselowski and Matt Kenseth each had short spells out front before the lead re-cycled to Harvick, on lap 144. Debris on the backstretch brought out the third caution of the race on lap 155. Keselowski stayed out when the others pitted, to retake the lead for the restart on lap 161. With 73 laps to go, Harvick started having engine troubles that took him out of the race; this was the first of five straight races where he was plagued by mechanical trouble. The following lap, Keselowski gave up the lead to pit, when Johnson reclaimed the lead.


2014 Kobalt 400, Race, Second half
Paul Menard moved to the front with 68 laps to go, but pitted with 62 laps to go and Johnson assumed the lead. He pitted the next lap to pass the lead to Earnhardt. Denny Hamlin took the lead with 56 laps to go, but pitted the next lap and the lead returned to Keselowski. Debris on the frontstretch brought out the fourth caution with 47 laps to go. Earnhardt, Jr. stayed out when the leaders pitted to take the lead for the restart with 42 laps to go.


2014 Kobalt 400, Race, Second half, Final lap
On the final lap of the race, Earnhardt, Jr. ran out of gas exiting turn 2 and Keselowski passed him to take the checkered flag. Keselowski praised his Team Penske organization, stating that they were "just doing everything so well right now", while also stating his pleasure with the victory and the added bonus of being a competitor in the Chase for the Sprint Cup later in the season, stating that he did not "have to hear all that crap all year long about not being in the Chase".


2014 Kobalt 400, Race, Second half, Final lap
Earnhardt, Jr. was disappointed with the way that his race finished, describing running out of gas as "tough", while stating that he and his team "have got a good thing going, we've got to be positive. We've got to keep trying to win races. I know my fans are disappointed, but we got to stay positive".


2014 Kobanî protests
The 2014 Kobanî protests in Turkey refer to large-scale rallies by pro-People's Defense Units (YPG) protestors in Turkey in autumn 2014, as a spillover of the crisis in Kobanî. Large demonstrations unfolded in Turkey, and quickly descended into violence between protesters and the Turkish police. Several military incidents between Turkish forces and militants of the Youth Wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in south-eastern Turkey, contributed to the escalation. Protests then spread to various cities in Turkey. Protesters were met with tear gas and water cannons, and initially 12 people were killed. A total of 31 people were killed in subsequent protesting up to 14 October.


2014 Kobanî protests, Causes
As a result of the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Kobanî that began 13 September 2014, more than 200,000 Syrian refugees flowed into Turkey. However, Turkish security forces did not allow People's Protection Units (YPG) militants and other volunteers to go the other way, using tear gas and water cannons against them. There were several causes for the protests.


2014 Kobanî protests, Causes
Turkish authorities forbade Kurdish volunteers to cross the border into Kobanî was one, that Turkey refused to launch a military operation in defense of Kobani even though the Turkish parliament has passed a law authorizing one another. On 30 September, errant shells landed on Turkish soil and the Turks shot back into Syrian territory, with Turkish armor being brought to the border to deter further incursions. Five civilians in Turkey were injured when a mortar hit their house. Turkey evacuated two villages as a precautionary measure. While dispersing Kurdish crowds near the border, Turkish police fired tear gas directly into a BBC news crew van, breaking through the rear window and starting a small fire.


2014 Kobanî protests, Events
As a result of the crisis in Kobanî, massive pro-Kobanî demonstrations unfolded in Turkey and quickly turned into violence between protesters and the Turkish police. Several military incidents between Turkish forces and  militants in south-eastern Turkey, contributed to the escalation. Protests then spread to various cities in Turkey, such as Mardin, Bingöl or Van in Eastern Anatolia but also to the western cities of Izmir and Istanbul.


2014 Kobanî protests, Events
After on the 7 October Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Kobanî would fall to ISIL, the protests took up force. On the same day, there were reports that a 28-year-old Kurdish woman activist had been shot in the head by Turkish soldiers on the Turkish side of the border near Kobanî. She was reportedly part of a peaceful group of demonstrators who wanted the Turkish government to allow volunteers from Turkey to join the fight against ISIL in Kobanî.


2014 Kobanî protests, Events
According to a witness' interview with Amnesty International the Justice and Development Party (AKP) led Municipality's bodyguards attacked protestors in Siirt on the 7 October 2014. The same day, several members of the Islamist Hüda Par party were killed in Bağlar, Diyarbakır. On the 8 October Mark Lowen from the BBC reported that 19 people shall have died and that the Turkish authorities imposed curfews in several cities with a majorly Kurdish population. Protesters were met with tear gas and water cannons, and initially 12 people were killed. A total of 31 people were subsequent rioting up to 14 October.


2014 Kobanî protests, Events
On 1 November 2014, multiple protests took place to support the Kurds of Kobanî. 5,000 people demonstrated in the Turkish town of Suruç, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border. At least 15,000 marched in Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır and 1,000 protested in Istanbul, all peaceful.


2014 Kobanî protests, Events, Responses
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that he was not ready to launch operations against ISIL in Syria unless it was also against the Syrian government.


2014 Kobanî protests, Legal prosecution of the protestors
Erdoğan has repeatedly blamed the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) for the deaths during the Kobanî protests. Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, Co-Chairs of the HDP in 2014, were arrested due to other charges in November 2016 but from September 2019 onwards, were also prosecuted for the Kobani protests. The prosecutors initiated the investigation against Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ the same day Demirtaş demanded his release due to a courts verdict, that he was to be released pending trial.


2014 Kobanî protests, Legal prosecution of the protestors
In September 2020, the investigations were expanded onto the leading politicians of the HDP and the Democratic Regions Party (BDP) at the time of the protests. Sirri Süreyya Önder, and Ayhan Bilgen were detained on the 25 September 2020. The prosecution of 82 supporters of the protests during September 2020, has led to other protests against the prosecution. During October, Sebahat Tuncel, Aysel Tuğluk and Gültan Kişanak, all imprisoned at the times, received new arrest warrants due to the protests. Gülser Yıldırım was also summoned to deliver a statement, following which she was released into house arrest.


2014 Kobanî protests, Legal prosecution of the protestors
In the trial of Kişanak, secret witnesses are being used. The HDP has called several times for a parliamentary commission which would investigate the events causing the protests, but their demands were rejected by politicians of the AKP and their political ally the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). In January 2021, the president of the MHP Devlet Bahçeli, called for the closure of the HDP due to its involvement in the Kobanî protests. On the 2 March 2021, the Court of Cassation requested the file regarding the Kobani protests and on the 17 March the State Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court demanding the closure of the HDP.


2014 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game
The 2014 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game took place on January 11, 2014 at the Slovnaft Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia, home of Slovan Bratislava, during the 2013–14 KHL season. Before the game, the players will compete in various events designed to test their speed, technique and creative skills.


2014 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game
The day before the All-Star Game, on 10 January 2013, several legendary veterans of Russian and Czechoslovak hockey played against each other in a friendly game.


2014 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters, Final roster
In November 29, 2013, was the final day of the fans’ vote to select the starting line-ups for the Eastern and Western Conference teams. The best five's selected as the first lines and goalies. In December 10, accredited journalists selected 2nd lines and goalies. In December 12, 2013, the league selected the coaches for teams East and West. The brigade of bosses in charge of Team West were Oleg Znarok, Jukka Jalonen and Fedor Kanareikin. Mike Keenan, Valery Belov and Dmitri Kvartalnov selected to head the Team East.


2014 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters, Final roster
Following the fans’ vote to select the starting line-ups and the journalists’ ballot to choose the second lines and goalies, the Kontinental Hockey League has added the remaining players to complete the rosters for teams East and West. In December 27, 2013, In response to the wishes of many fans and the sound arguments put forward by professional hockey journalists, the Kontinental Hockey League has agreed to add four attackers to the rosters. Team West’s offense will be strengthened by the arrival of Jakub Klepiš of Lev Prague and Geoff Platt of Dinamo Minsk, while Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod’s Denis Parshin and Traktor Chelyabinsk’s Evgeny Kuznetsov have been chosen to reinforce Team East.


2014 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters, Final roster
Prior to the draft several players withdrew due to injury:


2014 Kor Royal Cup
The 2014 Kor Royal Cup was the 79th Kor Royal Cup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Thai Premier League and Thai FA Cup competitions. The match was played at Suphanburi Stadium, Suphanburi and contested by 2013 Thai Premier League champions Buriram United, and 2013 Thai Premier League runners-up Muangthong United, as Buriram also won the 2013 Thai FA Cup. On January 21, with less than two week before the start of the tournament, the 2014 Kor Royal Cup were moved from the capital Bangkok to Suphanburi because the 2013–14 Thai political crisis .


2014 Korea Grand Prix
The 2014 Korea Grand Prix was the sixteenth badminton tournament of the 2014 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament was held in Jeonju Indoor Badminton Court, Jeonju, South Korea from 4 until 9 November 2014 and had a total purse of $50,000. This tournament hosted by the Badminton Korea Association, and organized by Jeonbuk National Badminton Association, with the sanctioned from the BWF. The sponsor of this tournament was the Jeollabuk-do, Jeonju city; Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Korea Sports Council; and the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation. At the end of the tournament, the host country won four from five titles, and also made a record to win the three consecutive doubles events (men's, women's, and mixed) for the eighth consecutive time. The women's singles title goes to Japanese player.


2014 Korea National League
The 2014 Korea National League, also known as the Samsung Life Insurance Korea National League due to sponsorship reasons, was the twelfth season of the Korea National League. The 2014 season operated the same system as in 2013, with the ten member clubs playing each other a total of three times each before the top four sides compete in the post-season championship playoff series.


2014 Korea National League, Changes from last season
Incheon Korail FC relocated from the city of Incheon to Daejeon and are now known as Daejeon Korail FC.


2014 Korea National League, Championship Playoff, Play-off
Gyeongju KHNP won 6–3 on aggregate and advanced semifinal stage.


2014 Korea National League, Championship Playoff, Semifinal
Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Dolphin won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced finals.


2014 Korea National League, Championship Playoff, Final
Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Dolphin won 2014 Korea National League by 3–1 on aggregate.


2014 Korea National League Championship
The 2014 Korea National League Championship was a cup competition of the Korea National League in South Korea. The 11th edition of Korea National League Championship was held from May 30th to 12th in Yanggu, Gangwon. All of the Korea National League clubs participated.


2014 Korea Open
The 2014 Korea Open was a women's professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 11th edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2014 WTA Tour. It took place in Seoul, South Korea between 13 and 21 September 2014.


2014 Korea Open, Points and prize money, Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team


2014 Korea Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Korea Open Super Series
The 2014 Korea Open Super Series was the first super series tournament of the 2014 BWF Super Series. The tournament took place in Seoul, South Korea from January 7–12, 2014 and had a total purse of $600,000. A qualification was held to fill four places in four of the five disciplines of the main draws.


2014 Korea Open – Doubles
Chan Chin-wei and Xu Yifan were the defending champions but Xu chose to participate at Guangzhou instead. Chan partnered Hsu Chieh-yu, but lost in the semifinals to Mona Barthel and Mandy Minella.


2014 Korea Open – Doubles
Lara Arruabarrena and Irina-Camelia Begu are the new champions, defeating in the final Mona Barthel and Mandy Minella with the score 6–3, 6–3.


2014 Korea Open – Singles
Agnieszka Radwańska was the defending champion, but lost to Varvara Lepchenko in the quarterfinals.


2014 Korea Open – Singles
Karolína Plíšková won the title, defeating Lepchenko in the final, 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–2.


2014 Korea Professional Baseball season
The 2014 Korea Professional Baseball season is 33rd season in the history of the Korea Professional Baseball.


2014 Korea Professional Baseball season, Season Structure, Regular season
Starting in season 2013, each team plays 128 games in the regular season, reduced from 133 due to expansion to nine teams. Each team plays every other 16 times.


2014 Korea Professional Baseball season, Season Structure, Regular season
There will be a third change in four seasons to the tie rule in South Korean professional baseball. In South Korean baseball, ties are called after 12 innings in the regular season and 15 innings in the playoffs. In 2008, the league briefly scrapped ties and forced teams to play until a winner was decided. But managers strongly opposed the change. The KBO went back to the 12-inning tie rule starting in 2009.


2014 Korea Professional Baseball season, Season Structure, Video Replay
Responding to growing calls to address issues in refereeing, presidents of the teams in the country's top baseball league have agreed to expand video replay starting in the second half of the season, officials said on 8 July. Currently, the KBO umpires rely on video replay for disputed home run calls only. The instant replay coverage on home runs was introduced in 2009. Under the present KBO rules, umpires' decisions on safe-out and fair-foul calls are final and managers or coaches may not protest those calls.


2014 Korea Professional Baseball season, Season Structure, Video Replay
The league's umpires, though, have been on the hot seat for most of this season with some high-profile missed calls. With every KBO game broadcast live on cable television and available for free streaming online for domestic viewers, and with improved technology breaking down disputed plays from multiple angles, umpires also work under heavier scrutiny than in the past.


2014 Korea Professional Baseball season, Season Structure, Video Replay
Before this season, the KBO brass had said the league would conduct feasibility studies on expanded video review and that it would consider making the move by as early as 2015. At their meeting in May, the league's general managers discussed expanding video replay but decided to put the issue on hold until the end of this season, citing technical difficulties.


2014 Korea Professional Baseball season, Season Structure, Video Replay
With the pressure mounting to make changes, though, the KBO team presidents caved in and agreed to expand the replay in the second half, which begins on 22 July following the All-Star break. The KBO said it will convene its rules committee to revise the rule book, and settle on specifics of the expansion in a meeting of field managers ahead of the All-Star Game on 18 July. Before this season, Major League Baseball (MLB) decided to expand its review process to cover fair-foul calls and force play at bases, among other categories.


2014 Korea Professional Baseball season, Season Structure, All-Star Game
On 18 July, the best players participated in the Korean All-Star Game. The franchises participating were divided into two regions: Eastern League Team (Samsung Lions, Doosan Bears, Lotte Giants, SK Wyverns) and Western League Team (Kia Tigers, Hanwha Eagles, LG Twins, Nexen Heroes, NC Dinos). The titles 'Eastern' and 'Western' do not directly correspond to the geographical regions of the franchises involved, as both SK and Doosan, being from Incheon and Seoul respectively, are based in the Western region of Korea, despite representing the East. Unlike in Major League Baseball, the Korean All-Star Game does not determine home-field advantage in the Korean Series. The game was played at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field and won 13-2 by Western League Team on 18 July 2014.


2014 Korea Professional Baseball season, Season Structure, Postseason
Korea Professional Baseball season culminates in its championship series, known as the Korean Series. Currently, the top four teams qualify for the postseason based on win/loss records. The team with the best record gains a direct entry into the Korean Series, while the other three teams compete for the remaining place in a step-ladder playoff system:


2014 Korea Professional Baseball season, Foreign hitters
Each team could have signed up to three foreign players. Due to the high proportion of pitchers signed in previous years, and there being no foreign hitters at all in 2012–2013, beginning in 2014 the league mandated that at least one of the foreign players must be a position player.


2014 Korean FA Cup
The 2014 Korean FA Cup, known as the Hana Bank FA Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 19th edition of Korean FA Cup. It began on 22 March 2014. The cup winner were guaranteed a place in the 2015 AFC Champions League. Since 2014 edition, four amateur football clubs competed in the first round.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Participants, K League Classic
All of K League Classic clubs are entered in round of 32. Total 12 teams took part in 2014 edition.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Participants, K League Challenge
All of K League Challenge clubs are entered in second round. Total 10 teams took part in 2014 edition.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Participants, Korea National League
All of Korea National League clubs are entered in second round. Total 10 teams took part in 2014 edition.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Participants, Challengers League
All of Challengers League clubs except 17, 18th clubs of previous season are entered in first round. Total 16 teams took part in 2014 edition.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Participants, University
All of university teams took part in 2014 edition are entered in first round. Total 20 teams took part in 2014 KFA Cup.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Participants, Amateur
Four 2013 amateur tournament winners and runners-up are competed in 2014 edition.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Results, Preliminary Round
Preliminary round is consist of two round. First round was held on 22 & 23 March 2014


2014 Korean FA Cup, Results, Preliminary Round, First round
The draw for the first round was held on 28 February 2014.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Results, Preliminary Round, Second round
The draw for the second round was held on 26 March 2014.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Results, Final Round, Round of 32
The draw for the round of 32 was held on 15 April 2014.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Results, Final Round, Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 2 June 2014.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Results, Final Round, Quarter-finals
The draw for the Quarter Finals was held on 22 July 2014.


2014 Korean FA Cup, Results, Final Round, Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 26 August 2014.


2014 Korean Series
The 2014 Korean Series was the championship series of the 2014 Korea Professional Baseball season. The regular season champions, the Samsung Lions, defeated the Nexen Heroes in six games to win their fourth consecutive Korean Series championship.


2014 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 1
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - 6:30 p.m. (KST) at Daegu Baseball Stadium in Daegu


2014 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 2
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 6:30 p.m. (KST) at Daegu Baseball Stadium in Daegu


2014 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 3
Friday, November 7, 2014 - 6:30 p.m. (KST) at Mokdong Baseball Stadium in Seoul


2014 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 4
Saturday, November 8, 2014 - 2:00 p.m. (KST) at Mokdong Baseball Stadium in Seoul


2014 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 5
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 6:30 p.m. (KST) at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul


2014 Korean Series, Matchups, Game 6
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 6:30 p.m. (KST) at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul


2014 Korean Tour
The 2014 Korean Tour was the fourth season of the Korean Tour to carry Official World Golf Ranking points. The season consisted of 14 events, three of which were co-sanctioned by the OneAsia Tour. All the tournament had prize funds of at least 300 million won (approximately US$290,000). Five had prize funds of 1 billion won ($960,000) or more.


2014 Korean Tour, Tournament schedule
The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Korean Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament.


2014 Korean Tour, Order of Merit
The Order of Merit used a points system. Points were awarded based on the player's position in each event.


2014 Korean Tour, Prize money leaders
'Events' refers to the number of tournaments in which the player won prize money.


2014 Kosovan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Kosovo on 8 June 2014, after incumbent Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi announced his intention to hold elections.