2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team
The 2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team represented Texas Christian University during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Horned Frogs played their home games at Charlie & Marie Lupton Baseball Stadium as a member of the Big 12 Conference. They were led by head coach Jim Schlossnagle, the winningest coach in TCU baseball history, in his 15th year at TCU.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Previous season
The Horned Frogs entered the 2018 season on the heels of four consecutive trips to the College World Series. The 2017 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team entered the season as the unanimous preseason #1 team, and the favorite to win the Big 12 regular season championship. They notched a 39–14 (16–8) regular season record, and won a Big 12 Conference championship for the fourth-straight season, sharing the regular season co-championship with Texas Tech. In the postseason, the Horned Frogs advanced to the Big 12 Tournament semifinals, before being eliminated by Texas.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Previous season
TCU was selected as the #6 National Seed the NCAA Tournament, the Horned Frogs' highest-ever national seed. Star-first baseman/designated hitter Luken Baker was unavailable for the Tournament after a late-regular season injury. The Frogs coasted to a 3–0 record in the Fort Worth Regional, with wins over Central Connecticut, #11 Virginia, and #20 Dallas Baptist, and a 2–0 sweep of #8 Missouri State in the Fort Worth Super Regional to advance to the College World Series for the fourth-straight year.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Previous season
In Omaha, the Frogs fell in their opener to eventual-national champion, Florida, an 0–3 loss at the hands of Gator starting pitcher Alex Faedo. TCU then eliminated #8 Texas A&M and #4 Louisville to advance to a rematch with Florida in the national semifinals. The Frogs' win over the Aggies marked the third consecutive season, and the fourth in the past six seasons, that TCU eliminated Texas A&M from the NCAA Tournament.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Previous season
The Frogs then beat #3 Florida 9–2 in the teams' first rematch before falling to the Gators in a decisive national semifinal game, again an 0–3 loss to Alex Faedo. The loss marked the third-straight year that TCU's season ended in the national semifinals. TCU finished the season ranked #4 in every final poll, with a 50–18 record (the Frogs' third 50-win season).


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, MLB Draft
The following Horned Frogs on the 2016 roster were selected in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft:


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, Departed Players
The following Horned Frogs on the 2017 roster departed the program prior to the 2018 season:


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, Recruiting Class
The Horned Frogs added the following players to the roster as part of their 2017 recruiting class:


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, Season Projections
Coming off four-straight College World Series appearances in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, returning anticipated starting pitchers Jared Janczak, Rex Hill and Nick Lodolo, and adding a highly ranked recruiting class, the 2018 Horned Frogs were projected as one of the "Eight for Omaha" in July 2017 by Baseball America, D1 Baseball, and Perfect Game.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, Season Projections
The Horned Frogs were ranked in each major preseason poll and ranking. TCU was ranked #3 by Perfect Game, #4 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, #5 in the NCBWA Poll, #7 by D1 Baseball and Baseball America, and #9 by Collegiate Baseball.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Preseason, Season Projections
Big 12 coaches predicted TCU would finish second in league play, with 4 of the 9 coaches picking TCU to finish in first place.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Personnel, Coaching Staff
TCU will return its entire coaching staff from the Frogs' 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 College World Series seasons. Pitching coach Kirk Saarloos, a California native, was reportedly courted by Stanford to replace 31-season head coach Mark Marquess, but Saarloos opted to remain at TCU.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Personnel, Roster
The Horned Frogs' 2018 roster consists of 17 returners and 15 new players. Nearly half of the roster (15 of 32 players) are from outside the State of Texas. Sophomore catcher Zach Humphreys and freshman pitcher Russell Smith were high school teammates at Midlothian High School, and sophomore pitcher Cal Coughlin and freshman outfielder Brad Czerniejewski were high school teammates at Lake Forest High School in Illinois. Junior catcher Colton Parrish and junior outfielder Johnny Rizer were teammates at Blinn College before transferring to TCU prior to the 2018 season.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team, Rankings
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 2018 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The 123rd TCU football team played as a member of the Big 12 Conference and played their home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium, on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas. They were led by 18th-year head coach Gary Patterson. They finished the season 7–6, 4–5 in Big 12 play to finish in a tie for fifth place. They were invited to the Cheez-It Bowl where they defeated California.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs football team, Previous season
The Horned Frogs finished the 2017 season with a No. 9 national ranking and an 11–3 record. The Frogs dropped both a regular season game in Norman and the Big 12 Championship Game to Big 12 champion Oklahoma. TCU defeated Stanford in the Alamo Bowl.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll
The Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Horned Frogs predicted to finish in third place.


2018 TCU Horned Frogs football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
When the two Big 12 conference teams that both wear purple got together for the 2018 matchup, Kansas State lost  quarterback Skylar Thompson to an injury in the first quarter and the Wildcats wen to backup Alex Delton. Kansas State kept the game close but missed a PAT leaving the score 14-13 in favor of TCU. "Of course I feel horrible for him," Snyder said. "He's one of the young guys. He didn't lose the ballgame for us. There were a bunch of us that made mistakes that contributed." With the loss, K-State was left in a position to win the last three games in order to be eligible for post-season bowl games.


2018 THB Champions League
The 2018 THB Champions League is the top level football competition in Madagascar. The season began on 22 June 2018.


2018 THB Champions League, Final phase
Also known as Poule des As. Played between 5 August and 23 September (home-and-away basis). Qualified teams:


2018 TSL season
The 2018 AFL Tasmania TSL premiership season is an Australian rules football competition staged across Tasmania, Australia over twenty-one home and away rounds and six finals series matches between 30 March and 15 September.


2018 TSL season
The League was known as the Bupa TSL under a commercial naming-rights sponsorship agreement with the company.


2018 TSL season
Before the season started there were three team changes to the competition with Burnie and Devonport departing the league. Hobart City were replaced in the competition by North Hobart who returned to the competition after a 4-year absence.


2018 TT Pro League
The 2018 TT Pro League season is the 20th season of the TT Pro League, the Trinidad and Tobago professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1999. A total of ten teams are contesting the league, with North East Stars the defending champions from the 2017 season.


2018 TT Pro League
The 2018 football season kicked off with the Charity Shield between defending TT Pro League champions North East Stars and defending Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy champions W Connection. League play officially started on 10 August 2018, and ended on the 7 December with the crowning of W Connection by one point over their Couva rivals Central. It was their first title since the 2013–14 season


2018 TT Pro League, Teams, Team summaries
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 TT Pro League, Stadiums Used
Since the teams do not play in their set home stadium, these are the stadiums that were used to host the matches throughout the season.


2018 TT Pro League, League table, Positions by round
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 the tenth round of matches, but then postponed and played between rounds 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for round 16.


2018 Tahiti Championship season
The 2018 Tahiti Championship competition was the 45th season of the Tahitian domestic rugby union club competition operated by the Fédération Polynésienne de Rugby (FPR).


2018 Taiwan Football Premier League
The 2018 season of the Taiwan Football Premier League (TFPL) is the second season of top-flight association football competition in Taiwan under its current format. The Taiwan Football Premier League includes eight teams. The season began in April 2018. Tatung FC finished at the top of the table, with that result, Tatung FC won the League and  earned an automatic berth in the 2018 AFC Cup. However, Hang Yuen was granted the AFC Cup berth after the champions declined the AFC invitation in order to focus on next season.


2018 Taiwan Football Premier League, Qualification
Four teams entered the qualification stages of the tournament to play in the 2018 season of the TFPL. These teams were Ming Chuan University, Tainan City, Taicheng Lions and Bear Bro Ilan. Ming Chuan University and Tainan City were at the bottom of the chart in 2017. FC Taicheng and Bear Bro Ilan were new entrants in 2018.


2018 Taiwan Football Premier League, Qualification
The games took place on January 27–29, 2018. Taicheng Lions and Tainan City finished first and second in the group, qualifying them for the league season.


2018 Taiwan Open
The 2018 Taiwan Open was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the event and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour.


2018 Taiwan Open, Points and prize money, Prize money
1 Qualifiers' prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team


2018 Taiwan Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Taiwan Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2018 Taiwan Open – Doubles
Chan Hao-ching and Latisha Chan were the defending champions, but Latisha Chan chose not to participate this year. Chan Hao-ching played alongside Tímea Babos, but lost in the semifinals to Nao Hibino and Oksana Kalashnikova.


2018 Taiwan Open – Doubles
Duan Yingying and Wang Yafan won the title, defeating Hibino and Kalashnikova in the final, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–5).


2018 Taiwan Open – Singles
Elina Svitolina was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began.


2018 Taiwan Open – Singles
Tímea Babos won the title, defeating Kateryna Kozlova in the final, 7–5, 6–1.


2018 Taiwanese local elections
Local elections were held on 24 November 2018 in Taiwan, to elect county magistrates (city mayors), county (city) councilors, township mayors, township councilors and chiefs of village (borough) in 6 municipalities and 16 counties (cities). Elected officials would serve a four-year term. Polling stations were open from 08:00 to 16:00 on the election day.


2018 Taiwanese local elections
The elections resulted in a substantial defeat for the DPP. The DPP previously held 13 of 22 municipalities and counties, but won only 6 in this election due to widespread public distrust, a de facto vote of no confidence on President Tsai's Administration, both politically (relations with China), economically (agriculture, tourism), and socially (pollution, labor laws, wages), which were reflected in the series of referendum results. The KMT won back executive control of 7 municipalities and counties from the DPP, while Ko Wen-je won his re-election for Taipei mayor.


2018 Taiwanese local elections, Background
This local election was seen as the first test for the incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen since assuming office in May 2016. The Central Election Commission opened election registration to candidates on 27 August 2018.


2018 Taiwanese local elections, Background
The Democratic Progressive Party has won the popular vote against the Kuomintang in all of the last three elections. This trend has continued in the 2016 elections, where the Democratic Progressive Party won a majority in the Legislative Yuan with 68 seats and the presidency.


2018 Taiwanese local elections, Aftermath
President Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation as chairperson for the Democratic Progressive Party; Premier William Lai also unilaterally announced his resignation on Facebook ; his resignation was approved in 2019. The DPP secretary general Hung Yao-fu and Secretary-General to the President Chen Chu also announced their resignations. Following the elections, the Taiwanese foreign minister claimed that China had meddled in the elections.


2018 Taiwanese local elections, Aftermath
Defector and self-proclaimed former spy William Wang claimed that the government of China had successfully supported candidates in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections.


2018 Taiwanese referendum
A multi-question referendum was held in Taiwan on 24 November 2018 alongside local elections. The referendum was the first since the December 2017 reform to the Referendum Act, which reduced the threshold for submitting questions to the ballot; under the new system, signatures from 1.5 percent of the electorate (around 280,000 people) were required to successfully put a question on the ballot, reduced from 5 percent previously.


2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background
A total of ten questions appeared on the ballot. Under Taiwanese law, for their initiative to be presented to the voters, a total of 280,000 signatures (1.5% of eligible voters) were required for a question to be considered by the Central Election Commission (CEC). Five of the questions reviewed and approved by the CEC were about LGBT rights, LGBT sex education and same-sex marriage. Four other questions on the ballot concerned international games representation, nuclear power, coal power and a ban on imports of agricultural products and food from areas affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.


2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background
The tenth question asked voters to reject Article 95-1 of the Electricity Act, which stipulated that all of the country's nuclear power generating facilities should be decommissioned by 2025. This question had originally been rejected by the CEC, though the commission reversed its decision after being ordered by the Taipei High Administrative Court to accept an additional 24,000 signatures added to the petition.


2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background
For a proposal to be approved, at least 25 percent of the eligible voters had to vote in favour of the question.


2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background, Same-sex marriage proposals
In February 2018, a Taiwanese conservative Christian group opposed to same-sex marriage (the Alliance for Next Generation's Happiness) proposed holding a referendum on the issue, aiming to overturn a May 2017 ruling by the Constitutional Court that mandated the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Taiwan within two years. The Central Election Commission reviewed and accepted the group's proposals in April 2018.


2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background, Same-sex marriage proposals
Two of their approved questions were related to same-sex marriage; one on whether marriage should be limited to a bond between a man and a woman and one on whether there should be a special law to protect same-sex couples' right to a "permanent union" (effectively introducing civil unions). A third question will ask voters whether to prevent the implementation of laws mandating the inclusion of information about homosexuality in sexual education classes at schools.


2018 Taiwanese referendum, Background, Same-sex marriage proposals
In September 2018, a group in favor of same-sex marriage announced that it had collected enough signatures to submit its own questions to a referendum. The group's questions would require the legislature to amend the Civil Code to expressly allow same-sex couples to marry and also mandated the inclusion of gender diversity in sex education.


2018 Taiwanese referendum, Questions and results
The ten questions that appeared on the ballot and final results were:


2018 Taiwanese referendum, Olympics controversy
The olympics question was proven controversial. While the name Chinese Taipei was seen by many as confusing and even offensive, majority of respondents and athletes were more concerned that forcing the issue would lead to the total exclusion of Taiwanese athletes from the Olympics.


2018 Taiwanese tax reform protests
The 2017-2018 Taiwanese protests was demonstrations and popular protests held throughout Taiwan, mainly in its capital city, Taipei, as part of two waves of massive and violent demonstrations, in 2017, a wave of protests against a new pension reform was dispersed by Riot police as the Taiwanese yellow vests movement was protest campaigns against various new taxing and working laws in December 2018, mainly directed at president Tsai Ing-wen.


2018 Taiwanese tax reform protests
Demonstrations first broke out after police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters in January 2017, mainly retirees and military veterans, protesting new pension bills and new reform programs. Protesters rallied in Taipei outside the Legislative Yuan or presidential office in February, on the anniversary of the February 28 incident. Thousands participated in the next few days and next couple of weeks in nonviolent protest rallies.


2018 Taiwanese tax reform protests
A lot of chants and episodes of violence during the anti-reform and anti-China protests was recorded, like Down with independence (anti-independence) and Reverse the reforms. After the wave of protests, the government ignored the demands and the protests, soon surpassing the new reform in parliament (Legislative Yuan).


2018 Taiwanese tax reform protests
Thousands participated in an unprecedented wave of mass protests and demonstrations in support of the Yellow vests movement ongoing in France against a new taxing law, threatening workers. Huge crowds with yellow vests nodded and used chants to demand the withdrawal of the new taxing; however, similar to the last time, the government ignored the demands and the bites succeeded in parliament. Their main demands were fair handling of tax disputes and lower taxes.


2018 Tajik Cup
The 2018 Tajik Cup is the 27th edition of the Tajik Cup, the knockout football tournament of Tajikistan. The cup winner qualifies for the 2019 AFC Cup.


2018 Tajik Cup, Preliminary round
The draw of the preliminary round was held on 28 April 2018.


2018 Tajik Cup, Round of 16
The draw for the main rounds was held on 25 May 2018.


2018 Tajik League
The 2018 Tajik League is the 27th season of Tajik League, Tajikistan's top division of association football. The season began on 10 March 2018.


2018 Tajik League, Teams
On 8 February 2017, the Tajikistan Football Federation announced that the season would involve eight teams, with Khayr Vahdat, Parvoz and Ravshan dropping out of the league, and Panjshir gaining promotion.


2018 Tajik League, Relegation play-offs
The 2018 season ended with a relegation play-off between the 7th-placed Tajik League team, Panjshir and the runners-up of the Tajik First Division, Eskhata, on a two-legged confrontation.


2018 Tajik League, Relegation play-offs
Panjshir won 11–4 on aggregate and therefore both clubs remained in their respective leagues.


2018 Tajik Super Cup
The 2018 Tajik Supercup was the 9th Tajik Supercup, an annual Tajik football match played between the winners of the previous season's Tajik League and Tajik Cup. The match was contested by 2017 Tajik League champions Istiklol, and the 2017 Tajik Cup champions Khujand. It was held at the Central Stadium in Hisor on 2 March 2018. Istiklol won the match 3–2 thanks to an extra-time winner from Nozim Babadjanov. Khujand led a 2-1 at halftime thanks to goals from Firdavs Chakalov and Agbley Jones, with Istiklol getting one back on the brink of halftime after Chakalov. I the second half Belarusian striker Mikalay Zyanko equalised for Istiklol sending the game in to extra time. At the beginning of the second-half of extra-time Nozim Babadjanov gave Istiklol the lead and completed their comeback to win their 7th Supercup.


2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger
The 2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on green clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tallahassee, United States between 23 and 28 April 2018.


2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:


2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger – Doubles
Scott Lipsky and Leander Paes were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger – Doubles
Robert Galloway and Denis Kudla won the title after defeating Enrique López Pérez and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6–3, 6–1 in the final.


2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger – Singles
Blaž Rola was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Marc Polmans.


2018 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger – Singles
Noah Rubin won the title after defeating Polmans 6–2, 3–6, 6–4 in the final.


2018 Tallahassee mayoral election
The 2018 Tallahassee mayoral election took place on August 28 and November 6, 2018, to elect the Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida.


2018 Tallahassee mayoral election
Incumbent mayor Andrew Gillum decided to focus his campaign on the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election instead of seeking re-election which opened up a new seat for the mayor’s office. A blanket primary was held on August 28 with both John E. Dailey and Dustin R. Daniels receiving the most votes. Because neither the candidate received a majority, a run-off election was held on November 8. From there,  Dailey defeated Daniels by a close margin of 51% to 49%.


2018 Tallahassee shooting
On November 2, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at Tallahassee Hot Yoga, a yoga studio located in Tallahassee, Florida. The gunman, identified as Scott Paul Beierle, shot six women, two of them fatally, and pistol-whipped a man before killing himself.


2018 Tallahassee shooting
Criminal investigators attested to the attacker's hatred of women. The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism considers the attack an act of misogynist terrorism.


2018 Tallahassee shooting, Shooting
Scott Paul Beierle entered the hot yoga studio at 5:37 p.m. EDT on November 2, 2018, shooting six people, resulting in the deaths of two women, Maura Binkley, 21, and Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61. Officers responded to reports of gunfire within three and a half minutes, at which point the perpetrator was found deceased. Partygoers in a bar across the street told reporters how they witnessed people fleeing from the studio and that a man in a bloody white T-shirt who ran into the bar claimed to have charged the shooter only to be pistol whipped.


2018 Tallahassee shooting, Shooting
This claim was later backed up in interviews with survivors who stated that the male customer used a vacuum cleaner and then a broomstick to attack Beierle, which gave other students time to escape. Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo also credited the students who "fought back and tried not only to save themselves but other people".


2018 Tallahassee shooting, Shooting
The yoga studio was a part of a plaza that is occupied by restaurants and other businesses. Those eating at the restaurant underneath the studio heard the gunshots and told reporters that the owner came through the dining area shortly after, asking if anyone was a doctor.


2018 Tallahassee shooting, Victims
When officers arrived, it was discovered that six people had been shot during the attack. Two victims, Maura Binkley and Nancy Van Vessem, were deceased at the scene. Maura Binkley, age 21, was a student at Florida State University, and due to graduate in 2019. Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, age 61, was a doctor and the chief medical director for Capital Health Plan. She was also a faculty member at Florida State.


2018 Tallahassee shooting, Perpetrator
Scott Paul Beierle (1978 – November 2, 2018) was later revealed as the perpetrator by police. According to his social media profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn, Beierle was a military veteran and former teacher for the Anne Arundel County Public School System in Maryland, teaching both English and social studies at Meade High School and being affiliated with conservative groups FSU College Republicans and We Are Conservatives. Additionally, Beierle has also taught at numerous other schools as a substitute teacher, yet only briefly due to performance issues and inappropriate behavior.


2018 Tallahassee shooting, Perpetrator
In one instance, Beierle was fired for an incident where he reportedly asked a female student if she was "ticklish", while touching her "below the bra line" on her stomach. He had been charged twice for battery, in 2012 and 2016, where he was accused of grabbing a woman's buttocks in both situations.


2018 Tallahassee shooting, Perpetrator
YouTube videos posted by Beierle in 2014 showed that he identified with the involuntary celibate community while often complaining about  his sexual rejections from women. He also sympathized with the shooter behind the 2014 Isla Vista killings, Elliot Rodger, as he too felt lonely and unloved as well as posting misogynistic songs on SoundCloud. Other videos depicted him ranting about African-Americans, illegal immigration and interracial relationships. One of the videos was named "Dangers of Diversity".


2018 Tallahassee shooting, Perpetrator
The FBI and the Tallahassee Police Department attested to Beierle's hatred of women, saying he was "disturbed" during the shooting. They further noted he had planned the attack months in advance. The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism lists the attack as an act of misogynist terrorism.


2018 Tallahassee shooting, Aftermath
Florida State University held a vigil for the victims of the shooting on November 4, while another series of tributes were planned for November 5 with the help of Tallahassee's Delta Delta Delta sorority chapter, of which victim Maura Binkley was a member. Other tributes were published by the deceased's families and friends  through social media. On November 11, a candlelit vigil was held at Cascades Park. The day after the shooting, a yoga instructor of Hot Yoga Tallahassee led a yoga class for healing in the middle of Adams Street. In 2019, Binkley's parents sued the yoga studio and property owner claiming both were negligent in providing adequate safety.


2018 Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2018 Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2018 Tamil Nadu Premier League
The 2018 season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League is the third edition of the TNPL, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Tamil Nadu, India. The league was formed by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) in 2016.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing
The 2018 Kaveri River water sharing protests are a series of ongoing protests on the issue of water sharing problems from the River Kaveri between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka which are two states in India.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing
The Kaveri water dispute has been a major controversial issue between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the years and the issue has been raised further with protests have been conducted across the state of Tamil Nadu by several groups including from the large pile of actors and directors who have temporarily stopped working on their projects, films over the Karnataka's sharing the Kaveri water to Tamil Nadu. The delay in establishing a Cauvery Management Board in order to share equal river share award has sparked off protests in Tamil Nadu against the Karnataka state government.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing
Several film makers of the Tamil film industry has also criticised and threatened to postpone the IPL matches involving Chennai Super Kings which are to be held in Chennai as a part of the 2018 Indian Premier League season as Chennai Super Kings making their comeback into the IPL league after 2 years as they were serving a 2-year ban along with Rajasthan Royals over the 2013 IPL betting scandal. This situation in Tamil Nadu has been a major concern along with the Nadigar Sangam's strike against the increase of VPF charges which has left the South Indian state vulnerable with no new film releases for about 50 days.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing
The 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election which was a major concern in the state of Karnataka following the breakout of major Kaveri river water scandal has heaped in among several political dramatic turnarounds in the state with both main politicians B. S. Yeddyurappa and Siddaramaiah being historically defeated at the assembly elections.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Background
The genesis of this conflict rests in two agreements in 1892 and 1924 between the Madras Presidency and Kingdom of Mysore. The 802 kilometres (498 mi) Cauvery river has a 44,000 km2 basin area in Tamil Nadu and 32,000 km2 basin area in Karnataka. The inflow from Karnataka is 425 TMC ft whereas that from Tamil Nadu is 252 TMCft.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Background
However the Karnataka state does not agree with the sharing of drinking water with the South Indian state, Tamil Nadu, which has been followed according to the British era agreement. The state also believes that the British agreement is a very old one and needs to be renewed because of the rainfall patterns. Karnataka desperately wanted to receive more water share from the River Cauvery and this would ultimately reduce the share of water to South Indian states such as Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala. Due to these arguments this has been the unsolved issue between the two states in the recent times.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Background
On the other hand, there have been numerous criticisms and controversies regarding Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in the past, as the state has failed to deliver an expected water level to Tamil Nadu in the previous years due to draught despite the court order which has advised the Karnataka government to supply the amount which is expected by Tamil Nadu. Whereas Tamil Nadu has often demanded its complete share without considering the facts of insufficient rains and draught situation in Karnataka.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development
Supreme Court (SC) on 8 January 2018 declared that it would pronounce its verdict clearing all the pending cases and the confusion within a month. On 16 February 2018, the Supreme Court has pronounced its verdict. The Supreme Court urged to reduce 14 tmc water allocation to Tamil Nadu and requested Karnataka to release only 177 tmc of water to Tamil Nadu for next 15 years. The verdict also mandated to formally constitute the Cauvery river management board by the union government within 40 days for implementing strictly the tribunal award and its verdict.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development
The government of Karnataka expressed its displeasure in setting up the Cauvery Management Board, which was instituted to monitor water availability and use, as per the verdict of the Supreme Court. Union government also indicated that it was uncomfortable with the SC verdict, specifically to form the Cauvery management board within the stipulated period.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development
The re-allocation of water between the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka by the three-member SC bench is considered as deviation from earlier rulings given by bigger benches of the Supreme Court, in terms of changing the water allocations to a state by reviewing water allocations of a tribunal. As per Article 262 of the Indian Constitution, the role of the Supreme Court in an interstate water dispute is limited only to the interpretation and implementation of the tribunal order and to examine whether tribunal exceeded its limit by violating the constitution and the Interstate River Water Disputes Act.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development
However, the Supreme Court pulled out to establish the Cauvery Management Board as the Union Government failed to submit the documents within the deadline. It instructed the Union Government to formulate and draft the Cauvery Management scheme by 3 May. The Supreme Court also directed the authorities of both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to maintain calm and peace till the changes were implemented .


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development
With the Union government ignoring the Supreme court verdict to prepare a plan for Cauvery water management board within the time limit and the reason mentioned for that in the court is the law and order situation in Karnataka, tensions mounted among the people in Tamil Nadu. [citation?]


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Development
On 18 May, the Supreme Court ordered that a marginal increase of 14.75 TMC of water is to be supplied to Karnataka while Tamil Nadu would receive 177 TMC of water, in total.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
The farmers in Tamil Nadu state have found themselves buried in the banks of the Kaveri river as they were not able to receive sufficient water which is necessary for farming. The farmers also demanded to establish the Cauvery Management Board to solve the water crisis.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
On 7 April, the DMK chief M.K Stalin led the protests from Trichi to recover the Cauvery water sharing rights from Karnataka. On 11 April, the PMK followed and proceeded a rail strike and harthal from morning to evening.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
The home matches of the Chennai Super Kings in the 2018 IPL season are under threat following the Cauvery river dispute and about 4000 security personnel were deployed in wake of the homecoming match for CSK against the Kolkata Knight Riders on 10 April 2018 at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium. Amidst the IPL boycott threat over the Cauvery water controversy, the fans came in huge crowd to welcome and support the Chennai Super Kings team in the home soil during the clash against KKR. During the 8th over of the contest between CSK and KKR, few spectators who were inside the Chepauk Stadium threw shoes near the boundary line which fell close to Ravindra Jadeja who was fielding near the boundary rope.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
Madras high court issued a notice to BCCI after a PIL was filed seeking stay on IPL. The IPL chief, Rajiv Shukla earlier announced that the IPL matches would proceed in Chennai as usual and ordered the security officials to provide extra security for the upcoming IPL matches which are to be held in Chennai.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
However, later BCCI announced that the all 6 home matches of Chennai Super Kings are to be shifted out from hosting them in Chennai as the cops, security personnel couldn't able to control the protesters. The protesters were protesting against hosting the IPL matches outside the M.A Chidambaram Stadium and shown their undesire by burning the jerseys of CSK franchise. It was earlier rumoured that Dhoni's home city,  Ranchi could be the neutral venue for the home matches of the Chennai Super Kings team. The home matches of the team were also assumed by the reports to be hosted in the state of Kerala. The Board of Control for Cricket in India later revealed that Pune would be the new temporary home ground for CSK.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
On 8 April, the Tamil Film Fraternity organized a silent protest at Valluvar Kottam in Chennai. Veteran actors, including Sathyaraj, Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Vijay, Dhanush, and Vishal joined the protest, demanding the Central Government to resolve the dispute. Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Sathyaraj also requested the CSK cricket team players to wear black badges and black bands to show the support for the protests against Karnataka on the Kaveri water share issue. Tamil actor Simbu, who stayed away from the protest, clarified his stance in a press meet.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
He mentioned that he believes that the people of Karnataka have no issues in sharing Cauvery water with Tamil Nadu. He condemned the politicising efforts of the media and various political parties. He further requested the people of Karnataka to share a glass of water to their Tamil friends and post videos of the same on social networks, as a symbol of their truce with the people of Tamil Nadu. While this provoked criticism and ridicule in Tamil Nadu, it was well-received in Karnataka.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
And as requested by Simbu, on 11 April, between 3pm and 6pm, a large number of Kannada people in and around Bengaluru started posting photos of them physically handing over bottles of water to their Tamil friends. Actor Anant Nag appreciated Simbu for being more matured than Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth in this issue and criticised both the veteran Tamil actors Rajnikanth and Kamal Haasan stating that the actors are trying to politicising the Kaveri water share between the two states. Despite  some controversies, Simbu's initiative has managed to bring about a significant change in the mindset of people of both states.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
RJ Balaji, a RJ turned actor who regularly works as a commentator for the Star Sports Tamil, a leading sports channel in India which has got the rights from hosting the 2018 IPL matches refrained himself from doing commentary just prior to the start of the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings as the protests broke out against hosting the Indian Premier League matches in the Tamil Nadu capital on the cause of Cauvery issue. RJ Balaji also hinted that he would not work as a commentator for the upcoming matches involving Chennai Super Kings.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
He also later slammed the people of Tamil Nadu for the shift of the IPL league matches from Chennai to a different neutral venue and also argued that it is not correct to stop the professionals from doing their jobs in a peaceful way after he was forced to quit commentary on IPL matches.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions
The Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi was also scheduled to visit Tamil Nadu on 12 April to inaugurate the Def-Expo, infrastructure projects and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief, M. K. Stalin stated that the opposition party would waive black flags during Modi's visit to the ravaged state. The opposition party DMK has also asked the people to hoist black flags in the wake of the Prime Minister's visit in order to oppose his visit.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry
The Kollywood had earlier planned not to release local Tamil language films in Tamil Nadu as of 1 March 2018 due to the conflicts between Nadigar Sangam and Digital Service Providers on the increase of VPF charges which has tremendously affected the South Indian film industry. It is expected that the film industry has been kept losing 2–3 crores daily due to the standoff between Tamil Film Producers Council and cinema theatres in Tamil Nadu.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry
In addition to the continuous Tamil film industry strike over the VPF charges which was started around March, in April the industry has also called the boycott over the IPL matches in Chennai and also continued their motive by not to release Tamil films over the Cauvery water row. The Kollywood proceeded their hunger strike until the establishment of the Cauvery Management Board to solve the water crisis. The film industry had also stopped shooting for their upcoming important movies including Sarkar, Viswasam and NGK until 19 April.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry
Rajinikanth's upcoming mass budgeted films such as Kaala and 2.0 have also postponed to be released after the month of April as they were expected to be released in April coinciding the CSK IPL matches. Mercury, a silent thriller film of Prabhu Deva was released in other states of India on 13 April 2018 whereas in  Tamil Nadu the film had delay in its release and was finally released on 20 April soon after the Kollywood's decision to end its strike on 19 April.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry
This film was also the first film to have been released in Tamil Nadu around 50 days. Karthik Subbaraj, the director of the film Mercury  apologised for not releasing the film in Tamil following the industry's continuous strike since March 2018 which resulted in a huge loss to the film industry within a month.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry
On 19 April 2018, the film industry finally ended their strike even without the establishing of the Kaveri Management Board and pointed out to release new films in Tamil Nadu despite the continuous protests over the water sharing issue. The social media and CSK supporters deeply criticised the Tamil film industry for allowing new Tamil film releases in the state even without the construction of the Cauvery Management Board but to boycott the IPL matches involving Chennai Super Kings in Chennai.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Downfall in Tamil film industry, Ban on Kaala release in Karnataka
The Karnataka Film Chamber and Commerce stated that the Kaala film which is scheduled to be released on 7 June would be banned from its theatrical release in Karnataka citing the Rajinikanth's influence over the Kaveri water share dispute where he went onto criticise the Karnataka state and the government for not issuing the sufficient amount of water to Tamil Nadu. Actor Vishal stated that necessary actions would be proceeded with immediate effect to lift the ban on Kaala's theatrical release in Karnataka.


2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing, Reactions, Karnataka election polls 2018
The 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election which was held on 12 May 2018 sparked criticisms from Tamil Nadu over the Karnataka's government for not addressing the issue properly and for its delay in setting up a Kaveri Management Board. The Supreme Court also issued a strict notice to the Karnataka state government for using the Karnataka Legislative state election as an excuse to resolve the Kaveri riverwater crisis with Tamil Nadu cannot be acceptable.


2018 Tamil Thalaivas season
The 2018 Tamil Thalaivas season is the second season of the Tamil Thalaivas' existence in the Pro Kabaddi League. The team is currently led by Ajay Thakur and coached by E Baskaran. Tamil Thalaivas play their home matches at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Chennai), Tamil Nadu.


2018 Tamil Thalaivas season, Review
Tamil Thalaivas announced Edachery Bhaskaran as their new head coach. Kasinatha Baskaran, who had been at the helm of affairs in the previous season, will move into the role of Technical Director - Strategic Grassroot Program of the franchise.


2018 Tamil Thalaivas season, Review
Tamil Thalaivas retained the core in form of Ajay Thakur, Amit Hooda and C Arun along with D. Pratap as a new young player, ahead of the auction.


2018 Tamil Thalaivas season, Review
Sukesh Hegde and Darshan J were also purchased by the franchise at an identical amount of Rs 28 Lakh. All-rounder Manjeet Chillar was also picked up by the Thalaivas for Rs. 20 Lakhs. While Rajnish, and Anand join the team as new young players.


2018 Tamil Thalaivas season, Review
Thalaivas managed to pick up a lot of players on their base price, snapping up a number of bargain buys in the process. South Korean duo Chan Sik Park and Jae Min Lee were two such players.


2018 Tamil Thalaivas season, Sponsors
Tamil Thalaivas announced Muthoot Fincorp India will be the Official Title Sponsor for Season 5, 2017. Powered by , Associate sponsors are , Nippon Paints,  and Admiral Sportswear


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
The 2018 season was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 43rd in the National Football League and their third under head coach Dirk Koetter.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
During their season opener against the Saints, was the Bucs' first time since Super Bowl XXXVII scoring 48 points in a game, with quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick having a dominant performance. They would also beat the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2 and nearly beat the Pittsburgh Steelers during Week 3, both with Fitzpatrick as starting quarterback. However despite their 2–0 start, the first time since 2010 the Bucs began a three game skid with Fitzpatrick being benched for Jameis Winston in Week 4 against the Chicago Bears.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
Winston started the next three game before being benched in favor for Fitzpatrick against the Cincinnati Bengals. Fitzpatrick went on to start three more games until being benched again for Winston against the New York Giants where Winston would remain the starter for the rest of the season. Despite the Buccaneers leading the league in total passing yards, they only managed to match their 5–11 record from the previous season and finished last in the NFC South for the eighth time in ten seasons. After their Week 15 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the Buccaneers were eliminated from postseason contention for the 11th straight season. Fitzpatrick posted a 2−5 record while starting while Winston posted a 3−6 recording while starting. The team however set a then franchise record 396 points scored on the season.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
On December 30, 2018, head coach Dirk Koetter was fired following a Week 17 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at New Orleans Saints
Tampa Bay started the 2018 season with Jameis Winston serving a three-game suspension for violating the league's personal conduct policy. Ryan Fitzpatrick started as quarterback and led the Buccaneers to a 48–40 victory over division rival New Orleans. The 48 points scored tied a franchise record for most points scored in a game, with the Bucs also scoring 48 points in Super Bowl XXXVII. Also, the combined score of 88 points from both teams set an NFL record for the most points scored in Week 1. Fitzpatrick threw for 417 yards and 4 touchdown passes, and ran for another touchdown.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at New Orleans Saints
The scoring frenzy started early after the Saints scored a touchdown on their first drive. The Buccaneers answered with a 58-yard touchdown reception by DeSean Jackson, followed by a 3-yard touchdown run by Fitzpatrick, for a 14–10 lead at the end of the first quarter. In the third quarter, Mike Evans caught a 50-yard touchdown, the second touchdown pass of 50 or more yards. The Buccaneers tied a franchise record with 48 points, and set a team record with 31 first half points.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at New Orleans Saints
With under five minutes to go, Chandler Catanzaro missed a 44-yard field goal which would have broken the team record outright. Trailing 48–24, the Saints attempted a rally in the fourth quarter. Drew Brees led the Saints on two touchdown drives, and trimmed the deficit to 8 points with just over three minutes remaining. Facing a 3rd down & 11 at their own 24-yard line, Ryan Fitzpatrick scrambled 12 yards for a Buccaneers first down at the two-minute warning. The victory was secure as the Saints had no more time outs, and the Buccaneers took a knee three times to run out the clock.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Philadelphia Eagles
Tampa Bay won their second straight game, starting the season 2–0 for the first time since 2010. Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for 402 yards and 4 touchdown passes, the first player in NFL history to throw for 400 yards and four touchdown passes in the first two weeks of the season. The game started out with a bang as Fitzpatrick threw a 75-yard touchdown pass to DeSean Jackson on the first play of the game. Second-year tight end O. J. Howard also scored on a 75-yard touchdown pass later in the first half.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The Buccaneers largest lead was 27-7 midway through the third quarter. The Eagles scored two touchdowns in the second half to make it a one-score game, but they were not able to score again. The Buccaneers ran the clock down to 19 seconds, giving the Eagles time to run only three plays. With three seconds left in regulation, a Nick Foles pass followed by series of desperation laterals ran out the clock, securing the win for Tampa Bay. With Atlanta defeating Carolina, the Buccaneers lead the NFC South, and remain the only team in the division with an undefeated record.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
In the final game before Jameis Winston could return from suspension, Tampa Bay lost their first game of the season in their only scheduled primetime game. Ryan Fitzpatrick threw three interceptions in the first half, one returned for a touchdown, as the Buccaneers went into halftime trailing 30–10. In the second half, Fitzpatrick lead a comeback throwing two touchdown passes, and Buccaneers closed to within three points late in the fourth quarter. However, the defense could not stop the Steelers offense and the clock ran out.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Fitzpatrick finished the game with 411 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions, becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for over 400 yards in three consecutive games. With this loss, the Buccaneers fell to 2–1 but still remained atop the NFC South. The Bucs failed to start the season 3-0. The last time they had done so was the 2005 season.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Chicago Bears
Chicago routed Tampa Bay by the score of 48-10. Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky threw a franchise record-tying six touchdown passes, five in the first half alone, as Chicago jumped out to a 38–3 halftime lead. After completing only nine passes in the first half, Ryan Fitzpatrick was benched at halftime. Jameis Winston, fresh off his three-game suspension, came in to quarterback the second half. Winston salvaged the day with 16 completions for 145 yards, one touchdown pass, but two interceptions.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Atlanta Falcons
Following this defeat, the Bucs elevated Bucs’ linebackers coach Mark Duffner to defensive coordinator on Monday, replacing Mike Smith.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Cleveland Browns
At the end of the third quarter, the Bucs lead 23-9. However, the Browns scored two fourth quarter touchdowns to tie the game at 23. On the final play of regulation, Bucs kicker Chandler Catanzaro missed a 40-yard field goal to take the game into overtime. With under 2 minutes left in OT, Catanzaro came out for another game-winning field goal attempt, this time from 59 yards. The kick was good, giving the Bucs the win and ending their 3 game losing streak. With the win, the Bucs move back to .500 at 3-3 and remain 3rd in the NFC South.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Cincinnati Bengals
This was the first ever NFL game in which both Head Coaches were graduates of Idaho State University.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New York Giants
In the 3rd quarter, Fitzpatrick was benched after throwing his third interception. Winston came into the game for the first time since being benched for Fitzpatrick in Week 8, who was benched for Winston back in Week 4. Down 24-7, the Bucs mounted a comeback, outscoring the Giants 28-14 through the last quarter and a half. However, the Giants held on during their final drive to win the game. With their 4th straight loss, the Bucs fall to 3-7 and remain 4th in the NFC South. The following day, Winston was renamed the starter for Week 12's game against the 49ers by Coach Koetter.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. San Francisco 49ers
The Bucs snapped their four game losing streak with a win. Highlights from this game include Jason Pierre-Paul recording his 10th sack of the season, becoming the first Buccaneer to have a double digit sack season since Simeon Rice in 2005, Mike Evans achieving his fifth straight 1,000-yard receiving season and the Buccaneers defense recording their first turnover since Week 3. With this win, the Bucs move to 4-7, but remain last in the NFC South.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Carolina Panthers
The Bucs defeated the Panthers after a good defensive effort, including picking off Cam Newton four times, with Andrew Adams responsible for three of the four interceptions. The defense also sacked Newton four times. On offense, Chris Godwin led the team with 101 yards on 5 catches, including a 13-yard touchdown reception. With the win, the Bucs improved to 5-7 and moved to third place in the NFC South.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. New Orleans Saints
The Bucs fall to 5-8 with this loss. After being up 14-3 at the half, the Saints outscored the Bucs 25-0 in the second half to get the win. Even with the loss, the Bucs still remain third in the NFC South.


2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Atlanta Falcons
Despite leading 17-0 shortly before halftime, the Buccaneers lost the lead and fell 20-31 by the fourth quarter. Although they scored twice in the fourth quarter, two failed two-point conversions only gave them a 32-31 lead, and a 37-yard Matt Bryant field goal sealed the 32-34 loss. This loss dropped the Buccaneers to 5-11 and fourth in the NFC South for the second year in a row.


2018 Tampa Bay Rays season
The Tampa Bay Rays 2018 season was the Rays' 21st season of Major League Baseball, and the 11th as the "Rays" (all at Tropicana Field). The Rays played this season with few starting pitchers. Many games were started by pitchers normally used in relief, referred to as openers. This approach saw the Rays set MLB single season records for most no decisions by starters (91) and most wins by relievers (55). They finished the season with a 90–72 record, their first winning season since 2013; however, for the fifth consecutive year, they failed to make the postseason. This was because the Red Sox had 108 wins for the division title, while the Yankees had 100 wins and the Athletics had 97 wins for the wild card.


2018 Tampa Bay Rays season, Offseason
On December 11, 2017, the Rays acquired Joey Wendle in a trade in exchange for a player to be named later. One day later, the Rays traded minor leaguer Deion Tansel to the San Diego Padres for Ryan Schimpf.


2018 Tampa Bay Rays season, Offseason
On December 20, 2017, the Rays traded longtime franchise player Evan Longoria to the San Francisco Giants for Denard Span, Christian Arroyo, and two other prospects.


2018 Tampa Bay Rays season, Offseason
On February 21, 2018, the Rays were involved in a three team trade, trading Steven Souza Jr. to the Arizona Diamondbacks and receiving Anthony Banda and two Players later too be named later, from the Diamondbacks and Nick Solak from the New York Yankees. The next day, the Rays traded Corey Dickerson to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Daniel Hudson, minor leaguer Tristan Gray, and $1 million.


2018 Tampa Bay Rowdies season
The 2018 Tampa Bay Rowdies season was the club's ninth season of existence, and their second in the United Soccer League. Including the previous Tampa Bay Rowdies, this was the 25th season of a franchise in the Tampa Bay metro area with the Rowdies moniker. Including the now-defunct Tampa Bay Mutiny, this was the 31st season of professional soccer in the Tampa Bay region.


2018 Tampa Bay Rowdies season, Club
On October 2, 2018, the Tampa Bay Rays baseball club announced their purchase the Rowdies for an undisclosed amount, pending St. Petersburg City Council approval. Once the sale was finalized, Rays presidents Matthew Silverman and Brian Auld became vice chairmen of the soccer club. They, along with Rowdies vice president and chief operating officer Lee Cohen, became the team's directors.


2018 Tampa Bay Rowdies season, Competitions, Preseason / Friendlies
The Rowdies hosted Major League Soccer teams in the Suncoast Invitational for the third year in a row.


2018 Tampere Open
The 2018 Tampere Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 37th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Tampere, Finland, on 23–29 July 2018.


2018 Tampere Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Tampere Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2018 Tampere Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:


2018 Tampere Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Tampere Open – Men's Doubles
Sander Gillé and Joran Vliegen were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2018 Tampere Open – Men's Doubles
Markus Eriksson and André Göransson won the title after defeating Ivan Gakhov and Alexander Pavlioutchenkov 6–3, 3–6, [10–7] in the final.


2018 Tampere Open – Men's Singles
Calvin Hemery was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2018 Tampere Open – Men's Singles
Tallon Griekspoor won the title after defeating Juan Ignacio Londero 6–3, 2–6, 6–3 in the final.


2018 Tampines Rovers FC season
The 2018 S.League season is Tampines Rovers's 23rd season at the top level of Singapore football and 73rd year in existence as a football club. The club will also compete in the Singapore League Cup, Singapore Cup, Singapore Community Shield and the AFC Cup.


2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Key events, Pre-Season
On 9/12/2017, it was announced that the team had signed 15 players in the preparation for the 2018 AFC Champions Leagues qualifier against Bali United.


2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Key events, Pre-Season
On 25/12/2017, ESPN FC reported that Jordan Webb rebutted the chance to join Portugal League 2 team as he wanted to work with Rabb.


2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Key events, Pre-Season
On 12/1/2018, it was reported that Jordan Webb & Ryutaro Megumi will miss the Tampines' ACL playoff due to injury.


2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Key events, Pre-Season
On 28/2/2018, Rabb confirmed that Shannon Stephen will be out of the season due to a ligament injury.


2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, Out
Note 1: Rafiq Tajudin was initially promoted to the Sleague before being deregistered.


2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, Out
Note 2: Madhu Mohana initially moved to Malaysia before being released and signed with the Stags for the rest of season.


2018 Tampines Rovers FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, Out
Note 3: Hafiz Sujad initially moved to Malaysia with JDT II before being released and signed with the Stags for the rest of season.


2018 Tandridge District Council election
The 2018 Tandridge District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Tandridge District Council in Surrey, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party narrowly stayed in overall control of the council.


2018 Tandridge District Council election, Election result
The Conservative group lost eight seats at the election, a net loss of nine from 2014 (by-election loss to Oxted & Limpsfield Residents' Group (OLRG) in Limpsfield ward - Oct, 2016). The Liberal Democrats gained three of these seats, independents took three with OLRG taking the other three, including Limpsfield they had won in the by-election. This left the Conservatives with 22 councillors, compared to 9 for the Liberal Democrats, 7 Independents and 4 in the residents' group. A Conservative majority of one. Overall turnout at the election was 41%.


2018 Tarleton State Texans football team
The 2018 Tarleton State Texans football team represented Tarleton State University in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by head coach Todd Whitten, who was in his third consecutive season at Tarleton State and seventh overall as the head coach of the program. The Texans played their home games at Memorial Stadium and were members of the Lone Star Conference. The Texans finished the regular season with a 10-0 record, 8-0 in the LSC, and winning the Lone Star Conference championship.


2018 Tarleton State Texans football team, Schedule
Tarleton State announced its 2018 football schedule on May 14, 2018. The schedule consisted of six home and five away games in the regular season.


2018 Tarleton State Texans football team, Schedule
The Texans hosted two of the three non-conference games against Delta State from the Gulf South Conference and Lincoln University but had an away game with Stephen F. Austin canceled.


2018 Tashkent Challenger
The 2018 Tashkent Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan between 8 and 13 October 2018.


2018 Tashkent Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Tashkent Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2018 Tashkent Challenger – Doubles
Hans Podlipnik Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski were the defending champions but only Vasilevski chose to defend his title, partnering Vladyslav Manafov. Vasilevski lost in the first round to Federico Gaio and Enrique López Pérez.


2018 Tashkent Challenger – Doubles
Sanjar Fayziev and Jurabek Karimov won the title after defeating Gaio and López Pérez 6–2, 6–7(3–7), [11–9] in the final.


2018 Tashkent Challenger – Singles
Guillermo García López was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2018 Tashkent Challenger – Singles
Félix Auger-Aliassime won the title after defeating Kamil Majchrzak 6–3, 6–2 in the final.


2018 Tashkent Open
The 2018 Tashkent Open was a WTA International tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 20th edition of the Tashkent Open, on the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Olympic Tennis School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, between September 24 and 29, 2018.


2018 Tashkent Open, Points and prize money, Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team


2018 Tashkent Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Tashkent Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2018 Tashkent Open – Doubles
Tímea Babos and Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková were the defending champions, but they chose to compete alongside different partners in Wuhan instead.


2018 Tashkent Open – Doubles
Olga Danilović and Tamara Zidanšek won the title, defeating Irina-Camelia Begu and Raluca Olaru in the final, 7–5, 6–3.


2018 Tashkent Open – Singles
Kateryna Bondarenko was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.


2018 Tashkent Open – Singles
Margarita Gasparyan won the title, defeating qualifier and compatriot Anastasia Potapova in the final 6–2, 6–1. Ranked at World No. 299, Gasparyan became the third-lowest ranked player ever to win a WTA singles title.


2018 Tasmania SuperSprint
The 2018 Tyrepower Tasmania SuperSprint was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 6 to 8 April 2018. The event was held at Symmons Plains Raceway in Launceston, Tasmania, and was scheduled to consist of one race of 120 kilometres and one race of 200 kilometres in length. It was the third event of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 7 and 8 of the season. The event was the 46th running of the Tasmania SuperSprint.


2018 Tasmania SuperSprint, Report, Background
Shane van Gisbergen of Triple Eight Race Engineering entered the event as the championship leader, 49 points ahead of Erebus Motorsport's David Reynolds and 61 points ahead of DJR Team Penske's Scott McLaughlin.


2018 Tasmania SuperSprint, Report, Background
The event would see the introduction of a new qualifying format. Similar to MotoGP, there will be three sessions. The fastest ten drivers across the Friday practice sessions will get a bye into the second stage, with the other sixteen drivers required to go through Q1. The fastest six will join the other ten for Q2, with the other ten already having set their starting positions. Q2 will see the top ten advance to Q3, with the slowest six confirming their starting positions. Q3 will see the top ten drivers fight for pole position.


2018 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election
Periodic elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council were held on 5 May 2018. The two seats up for elections were Hobart and Prosser. Hobart was previously contested in 2012. Prosser was a new division created in the 2017 redistribution, and was vacant pending this election.


2018 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Hobart
The seat of Hobart, based in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart, has been held by independent member Rob Valentine since 2012.


2018 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Prosser
The east coast seat of Prosser was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries which came into effect on 5 August 2017. No member was assigned to the seat at its creation, instead the members for the abolished divisions of Apsley (Tania Rattray) and Western Tiers (Greg Hall) were both allocated to the new McIntyre until the expiry of Hall's term at this election.


2018 Tasmanian state election
The 2018 Tasmanian state election was held on 3 March 2018 to elect all 25 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.


2018 Tasmanian state election
The four-year incumbent Liberal government, led by Premier Will Hodgman, won a second consecutive term. It defeated the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Rebecca White, and the Greens, led by Cassy O'Connor. The Jacqui Lambie Network also competed in a state election for the first time, though the party did not win any seats and its leader Jacqui Lambie did not stand for election.


2018 Tasmanian state election
The Tasmanian House of Assembly (the lower house) has five divisions with five members each for a total of 25 seats, 13 of which are required for a majority. The divisions correspond in name and boundaries to the five federal electorates for the House of Representatives. The election was conducted by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission using the Hare-Clark electoral system; five candidate are declared elected once each of them reach 16.7% (one-sixth) of the total formal vote during counting.


2018 Tasmanian state election
House of Assembly elections are not tied to the election dates for the Legislative Council (the upper house), which occur in May each year for two or three of the 15 divisions, completing a fixed periodic cycle over six years.


2018 Tasmanian state election
Ultimately, the Liberals suffered a two-seat swing, but were able to hold on to a one-seat majority of 13 seats. It was the first time in 22 years that a Liberal government won a second consecutive term in Tasmania, and the first time since 1986 and only the second time since 1931 that an incumbent conservative government was reelected with an overall majority. It was also the first time a state parliamentary assembly in Australia elected a majority of female members, with thirteen women and twelve men.


2018 Tasmanian state election, Results
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2018 Tasmanian state election, Date
Under section 23 of the Constitution Act 1934, terms in the Tasmanian House of Assembly end a maximum of four years from the return of the writs following the previous election, in this case 29 March 2014. The election date is not fixed and can be called at any time with the agreement of the Governor of Tasmania, representing the Crown. The Electoral Act 2004 governs the process of requesting elections. The Governor may then issue writs between five and ten days after the Premier of Tasmania requests an election.


2018 Tasmanian state election, Date
Candidate nominations must close on a date seven to 21 days after the issuance of the Governor's writ, and polling day must be a Saturday between 15 and 30 days after candidate nominations close. Accordingly, if the lower house had run to its maximum term in 2018, then the Saturday election date would have been between 28 April and 19 May inclusive. However, on 28 January 2018, Premier Will Hodgman visited the Governor to request issue of writs for an election on 3 March 2018.


2018 Tasmanian state election, Background
The results of the previous election saw a substantial swing to the Liberal Party led by Will Hodgman, defeating the then Labor government led by Lara Giddings, which had governed in majority together with the Greens until shortly before the election. The 2014 election saw the Labor party reduced to seven seats and the Greens reduced to three seats in the Assembly.


2018 Tasmanian state election, Background
Following the loss, Giddings resigned as leader of the Labor Party and was replaced by then opposition Deputy Premier Bryan Green. He subsequently resigned from opposition leadership on 17 March 2017, and Rebecca White was elected Labor leader unopposed. Aside from the Liberals, Labor and Greens, the Jacqui Lambie Network, formed in 2015, fielded several candidates in 2018 and was considered a chance to pick up seats, although they failed to do so. The two other minor parties contesting the 2018 election were the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and the newly formed T4T – Tasmanians 4 Tasmania.


2018 Tasmanian state election, Background, Campaign
With polls showing that the Greens and Jacqui Lambie Network were polling well, there was speculation that the Liberals could lose their majority. Nonetheless, Hodgman was adamant that he would only govern if the Liberals retained their majority, saying, "We will govern alone or not at all."


2018 Tasmanian state election, Background, Campaign
The Labor party ran on a policy that claimed it would make Tasmania the first state in the country to remove poker machines from pubs and clubs. During the 2018 campaign Federal Group, the largest operator of gaming venues in Tasmania, admitted to supporting its employees campaigning on a pro-pokie platform. Opposition Labor Leader Rebecca White claimed the Liberal Party outspent the Labor election campaign by a factor of 5 to 1.


2018 Tasmanian state election, Background, Campaign
Whilst the disclosure of political donations in Tasmania is required annually, and donations below $13,000 don't have to be reported, there were widespread calls for greater transparency in campaign spending in the lead up to the 2018 election. Federal Group had no applicable disclosed donations to the Tasmanian Liberal Party in the applicable yearly period prior to the election (2016–2017). However more recent donations prior to the election date are not required to be disclosed by the Australian Electoral Commission until FYE 2017–18. These disclosures showed that the gambling industry donated over $400,000 to the Liberal Party.


2018 Tasmanian state election, Background, Campaign
On the day before the election, 2 March 2018, it was revealed that the Liberal Party had tried to push through a plan to soften the state's gun laws, to benefit farm workers and sporting shooters.


2018 Tasmanian state election, Polling
Polling is regularly conducted for Tasmanian state politics by Enterprise Marketing and Research Services (EMRS). The sample size for each EMRS poll is 1,000 Tasmanian voters. Polling is also conducted irregularly by MediaReach, ReachTEL and Roy Morgan Research, the latter with sample sizes of typically a few hundred voters. The sample size for ReachTEL's 24 February 2018 poll was 3,179.


2018 Tata Open Maharashtra
The 2018 Maharashtra Open was a 2018 ATP World Tour tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 23rd edition of the only ATP tournament played in India and took place in Pune, India, from 1 January through 6 January 2018. It was the first edition of the tournament to be held after it was moved from Chennai to Pune.


2018 Tata Open Maharashtra, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Tata Open Maharashtra, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2018 Tathra bushfire
The 2018 Tathra bushfire was a bushfire that burned between 18 and 19 March 2018 and primarily affected parts of the South Coast region in the Australian state of New South Wales. The fire, understood to have been caused by a failure in electrical infrastructure, began in the locality of Reedy Swamp, near Tarraganda, which spread east towards Tathra in the municipality of the Bega Valley Shire.


2018 Tathra bushfire
The fire burned through over 1,250 hectares (3,100 acres) of farmland and forest reserves, before impacting the village of Tathra. The fire burned into the town and resulted in an urban conflagration that destroyed over 100 structures.


2018 Tathra bushfire, Background
Between July 2017 and February 2018 over 11,000 uncontrolled bushfires burnt 237,869 hectares (587,790 acres) across New South Wales; with major fires in the Sydney, Shoalhaven/Jervis Bay, Hunter, Mid Coast, Port Stephens, the Pilliga, Southern Tablelands, Mid Western and Tamworth/New England areas. December 2017 was the fifth-warmest December on record. In February 2018 the Minister for Emergency Services, Troy Grant, urged the public to help fire agencies by ensuring they remain prepared for fires. The day of the fire, 18 March 2018, was an extremely hot and windy day, with conditions reaching over 37 °C (99 °F) and winds gusting to over 70 kilometres per hour (43 mph) at the time the fire started.


2018 Tathra bushfire, Response
The NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, Member for Bega, Andrew Constance, Member for Eden-Monaro, Mike Kelly and Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, visited Tathra soon after the fire and met with evacuated people at the Bega Showgrounds.


2018 Tathra bushfire, Response
On 26 March 2018 Berejiklian and Constance announced that up to $10 million was available to remove asbestos-contaminated material and to help residents to clean up their properties; with the clean-up operation coordinated by NSW Public Works in conjunction with insurers and the Bega Valley Shire Council. On 29 March Prime Minister Turnbull officially declared the Tathra and Reedy Swamp areas a disaster zone for the purposes of affected residents accessing Australian disaster relief funds.


2018 Tathra bushfire, Response
The NSW Government appointed Euan Ferguson AFSM as the official Recovery Coordinator and announced that impacted residents could access disaster relief grants to eligible individuals and families whose homes and essential household contents have been damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster; small business were provided access to free independent and confidential business advice; NSW Family and Community Services provided a range of temporary housing support options; and a range of other support services were provided. The Bega Valley Shire Council established a Mayoral Appeal Fund, under the chairmanship of Councillor Kristy McBain, the Mayor; over $1,500,000 has been raised to date.


2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations
Immediately following the fire, numerous criticisms were raised by Fire and Rescue NSW firefighters through the Fire Brigade Employees Union in relation to the handling of the fire. Of immediate concern was the fact that their assistance had been declined in the early stages of the fire, which they believe cost more houses which could have been saved. Further culminating the issue were claims by RFS Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers that it would have been "dangerous" for Fire and Rescue NSW firefighters to attend the fire, a claim which was later refuted.


2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations
Following the allegations, further information was released detailing numerous incidents across the entire state where the Rural Fire Service had denied help from Fire and Rescue NSW at fires and other emergencies. As a result of this, the NSW Government instituted a commission of inquiry, headed by Mick Keelty AO, APM, a former Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police. The focus of the inquiry was on the call taking and dispatch arrangements of both Fire and Rescue NSW and the NSW Rural Fire Service.


2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations
Both the Fire Brigade Employees Union and former Commissioner Keelty emphasised prior to and following the report, that it would not be a criticism of the action of volunteers, but rather an investigation into the overall co-ordination of emergency incidents in NSW. The inquiry identified numerous issues with the response to, and management of the fire.


2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations
These included: the fact "some policies were not followed on the day"; a deputy incident controller was not appointed; there were delays in feeding information back to the FRNSW ComCen who were on the line to numerous 000 callers seeking assistance; the 'Fires Near Me' app was not regularly updated; an emergency alert was issued too late; ABC radio continued normal broadcasts on the day of the fires rather than broadcasting emergency updates; there were discrepancies in the number of resources attached to the fire between agencies; the RFS were limited to communications by radio with no real time vehicle locators; and that the 000 call taking system was "cumbersome" among other issues.


2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations
The key issue of the declined FRNSW assistance was addressed by Keelty in the report. Keelty stated that "It is likely that assistance from FRNSW was initially declined without full situational awareness of the intensity and speed of the fire" and that "FRNSW ComCen overruled the decision of the RFS District Duty Officer and deployed to the Bega Valley fires without being called out, but as it happened this was very useful for the overall protection of homes".


2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations
Keelty made a number of recommendations, including the abolition of fire district boundaries between the two agencies, the establishment of a centralised 000 call taking system, the roll-out of automatic vehicle locators across the RFS fleet, a review of the effectiveness of emergency public information arrangements and that both services take steps to continue to building a strong mutual respect based relationship with one another, particularly in management areas.


2018 Tathra bushfire, Investigations
Under the Coroner's Act 2009, the New South Wales Coroner instituted a coronial inquiry to establish the cause and origin of the bushfire, which as of March 2019 is yet to be released.


2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike
The 2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike was a labor strike involving workers for Georgia-Pacific in Taylorsville, Mississippi, United States.


2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike
The strike began on March 28, 2018 at 11 p.m. The strikers were members of the Carpenters Industrial Council Local 2086, the local union for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. The cause for the strike was related to scheduling issues, with a representative from the union telling WDAM-TV that "employees are unable to schedule vacations or know when they aren’t scheduled to work." At the time, negotiations had been ongoing for almost a year, with union membership previously voting to reject the company's proposals in both December and January. According to a press release issued by the union, the rejections were due to "severe lack of information throughout the company’s proposal". An official from the company stated that the negotiations were intended to lead to a schedule that was "more equitable to all the employees."


2018 Taylorsville Georgia-Pacific strike
The strike, which lasted over two weeks, ended on April 16, with the strikers returning to work that day. Union and company representatives had previously undergone mediation on April 13, without success. A company representative stated that union members had voted to ratify their labor contracts and return to work, with a union representative claiming that the time limit for the strike was approaching and that prolonging the strike would have allowed the company to "close their doors on us."


2018 Taça 12 de Novembro
The 2018 Taça 12 de Novembro is the 6th staging of the Taça 12 de Novembro. The season began on 26 September 2018 and was finished in the final match on 20 October 2018.


2018 Taça 12 de Novembro
The draw of the tournament was held on 22 September 2018.


2018 Taça 12 de Novembro, Teams
A total of 20 teams compete in the tournament: eight teams from 2018 LFA Primeira and twelve teams from 2018 LFA Segunda


2018 Taça Nacional da Guiné Bissau
The 2018 Taça Nacional da Guiné Bissau is the 34th edition of the Taça Nacional da Guiné Bissau since independence, the knockout football competition of Guinea-Bissau.


2018 Taça Nacional da Guiné Bissau, First round
Djata FC (Fulacunda)	awd Os Arados FC (Nhacra)	[3-0 awarded; Os Arados FC (Nhacra) dns]


2018 Taça Nacional da Guiné Bissau, First round
Massaf de Cacine	awd Flamengo FC de Pefine	[3-0 awarded; Flamengo FC de Pefine dns]


2018 Taça Nacional da Guiné Bissau, First round
Lagartos de Bambadinca	awd Atlético de Bissorã		[3-0 awarded; Atlético de Bissorã dns]


2018 Taça Nacional da Guiné Bissau, First round
Desportivo de Farim	awd Quínara FC (Tite)		[3-0 awarded; Quínara FC (Tite) dns]


2018 Taça Nacional de Cabo Verde
The 2018 Taça Nacional de Cabo Verde is the 6th edition of the Taça Nacional de Cabo Verde, the knockout football competition of Cape Verde. The competition, which is played out in a tournament between the cup winners of the nine islands, returns for the first time since 2012.


2018 Taça Nacional de Cabo Verde, Preliminary stage, South Zone, Group 1
Onze Unidos		1-1 Sporting da Praia		[1-1 aet; 1-2 pen]


2018 Taça Nacional de Cabo Verde, Preliminary stage, South Zone, Group 2
Qualifying round [May 27]Académica Fogo		1-1 Morabeza			[1-1 aet; 0-3 pen]


2018 Taça da Liga Final
The 2018 Taça da Liga Final was the final match of the 2017–18 Taça da Liga, the 11th season of the Taça da Liga. It was played on 27 January 2018 at Estádio Municipal de Braga.


2018 Taça da Liga Final
The competition involved the 33 clubs playing in the top two tiers of the Portuguese football league system – 18 from Primeira Liga and 15 from Segunda Liga – during the 2017–18 season. Reserve sides of Primeira Liga teams that played in the 2017–18 Segunda Liga were excluded from the competition.


2018 Taça da Liga Final
Vitória de Setúbal and Sporting CP faced off in a repeat of the competition's first final, held 10 years previously. Sporting CP won 5–4 on a penalty shoot-out after a 1–1 draw at the end of 90 minutes, winning the competition for the first time in their history.


2018 Taça da Liga Final, Background
For the second consecutive season, this competition featured a final four format with both the semi-finals and the final being played over a space of a few days in the same venue. The Estádio Municipal de Braga hosted all matches. The two teams had played in the inaugural final in 2008 with Vitória de Setúbal winning on penalty kicks. Sporting CP had the chance to win their first Taça da Liga while Vitória de Setúbal could be the first team, other than Benfica, to win the competition multiple times. Both teams were aiming for their first title of the season.


2018 Taça da Liga Final, Route to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).


2018 Taça da Liga Final, Match, Summary
Gonçalo Paciência opened the scoreline with an early goal after disputing the ball with Uruguayan Sebastián Coates, a left-foot strike on the turn to the bottom left corner from just outside the box. Both teams had clear chances to score throughout the match, with Sporting CP trying a breakthrough heading to the final third of the match. Sporting CP managed to equalise late in the game when it was determined, with the help of the video assistant referee, Vitória de Setúbal midfielder Tomás Podstawski had handballed inside his area after a series of saves by their goalkeeper Pedro Trigueira.


2018 Taça da Liga Final, Match, Summary
Dutch forward Bas Dost scored the subsequent penalty low to the middle. After the 90 minutes, the match was settled by a penalty shoot-out. Sporting CP won as Podstawski was the only player to miss his penalty after he hit the crossbar. The match had one of the highest amounts of yellow cards in the competition's final, a total of nine, six for Vitória de Setúbal, including Edinho, who was booked after taking his penalty.


2018 Taça da Liga Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Nuno MansoTiago CostaFourth official:Manuel OliveiraVideo assistant referee:João PinheiraAssistant video assistant referee:Nuno Eiras


2018 Taça de Macau
The 2018 Taça de Macau was the 2018 iteration of the Taça de Macau, the top football knockout competition in Macau.


2018 Taça de Macau, Bracket
Bold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score


2018 Taça de Portugal Final
The 2018 Taça de Portugal Final was the last match of the 2017–18 Taça de Portugal, which decided the winner of the 78th season of the Taça de Portugal. It was played on 20 May 2018 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, between Desportivo das Aves and Sporting CP. This was the first appearance for Desportivo das Aves in a Taça de Portugal final. The match was won by Desportivo das Aves.


2018 Team Bahrain–Merida season
The 2018 Bahrain–Merida Pro Cycling season was the second season of the Bahrain–Merida team, which was founded in 2016. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour, and their season began in January with the Tour Down Under.


2018 Team Bath netball season
The 2018 Team Bath netball season saw Team Bath finish fourth  in the 2018 Netball Superleague regular season. They subsequently lost to Wasps in a play-off semi-final. During their pre-season, Team Bath also played in the inaugural Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship and finished as runners up after losing the final to Loughborough Lightning.


2018 Team Bath netball season, Preseason, Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship
On 24 September 2017, Team Bath played in the inaugural Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship. Team Bath reached the final but lost to Loughborough Lightning.


2018 Team Bath netball season, Preseason, Tri-Tournament
On 6 January 2018 Team Bath hosted and won a three team tournament which also featured Severn Stars and Wasps. The tournament was broadcast live on BBC Sport.


2018 Team Bath netball season, Mike Greenwood Trophy
Team Bath played three games at the 2018 Mike Greenwood Trophy tournament but failed to register a win. Traditionally a pre-season tournament, the 2018 event, was switched to April this season to act as a warm-up for the restart of the 2018 Netball Superleague season, following the five-week Commonwealth Games break.


2018 Team Ice Racing World Championship
The 2018 Team Ice Racing World Championship was the 40th edition of the Team World Championship. The final was held on 10 and 11 February, 2018, in Shadrinsk, Russia.


2018 Team Long Track World Championship
The 2018 Team Long Track World Championship was the 12th annual FIM Team Long Track World Championship. The final took place on 1 September 2018 in Morizès, France.


2018 Team LottoNL–Jumbo season
The 2018 season for the LottoNL–Jumbo road cycling team which began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2018 Team Sky season
The 2018 cycling season began in Australia at the Tour Down Under for Team Sky in January.


2018 Team Sky season
As a UCI WorldTeam, they are automatically invited and obliged to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2018 Team Speedway Junior World Championship
The 2018 Team Speedway Junior World Championship was the 14th FIM Team Under-21 World Championship season. The final took place on 18 August, 2018 at the Outrup Stadium in Outrup, Denmark.


2018 Team Speedway Junior World Championship
Poland won their 11th Team Under-21 World Championship, and their fifth in succession. The Poles accumulated 46 points, with Bartosz Smektała top scoring for them with 13 points. Hosts Denmark finished second with 42 points, with Great Britain in third on 29.


2018 Team Sunweb (men's team) season
The 2018 season for Team Sunweb began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2018 Teen Choice Awards
The 2018 Teen Choice Awards ceremony was held on August 12, 2018, at the Forum in Inglewood, California. The awards celebrated the year's achievements in music, film, television, sports, fashion, comedy, and the internet, and are voted on by viewers aged 13 and over living in the United States through various social media sites.


2018 Teen Choice Awards
The biggest winner of the night was Riverdale, earning nine of its twelve nominations, including Choice Drama Series for the second year running, and only losing to itself in categories where it was nominated twice. The Greatest Showman also won big, earning five of its nine nods including Choice Drama Movie and Choice Movie Drama Actor, won by Zac Efron.


2018 Teen Choice Awards, Winners and nominees
The first wave of nominations were announced on June 13, 2018. The second wave was announced on June 22, 2018. Winners are listed first, in bold.


2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election
The 2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election was held on 30 October 2018 to elect the mayor of Tel Aviv. It saw the reelection of Ron Huldai to a fifth consecutive term.


2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election
The election was part of the 2018 Israeli municipal elections.


2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Campaigning
A popular four-term incumbent, Ron Huldai had never before faced a serious reelection challenge.


2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Campaigning
Lacking name recognition when he announced his candidacy, Asaf Zamir's prospects were initially considered a longshot. However, in the months after launching his campaign, Zamir saw his support rise. Before the election results came in, it was anticipated that he would at least force Huldai into a runoff election. As of July, a poll by Walla News showed Zamir in third place with only 11% of the vote, behind Huldai and prospective candidate Stav Shaffir. However, after Shaffir's made clear she would not be a candidate in the election, Zamir gradually climbed in support, posing a credible challenge to Huldai. Some polling shortly before the election showed Huldai with only a single-digit lead over Zamir.


2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Campaigning
Attacks on Huldai included accusations of crony capitalism related to his marriage to Maya Wertheimer, which made his grandfather-in-law billionaire Stef Wertheimer. Stef Wertheimer personally funded part of Huldai's reelection campaign.


2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Campaigning
Huldai and Zamir shared many similar political concerns, both advocating for lowering the price of housing, improvements to public transportation, and increasing the livability of the city.


2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Campaigning
Zamir promised to address housing needs by building the city vertically, adding high-rise apartments along busier roadways that can accommodate such buildings. He also proposed expanding the city center by renovating more distant neighborhoods in order to enable people to live further from the city's geographic core, without feeling removed from the city.


2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Results
The results in Tel Aviv, with 203,018 voters participating of 440,205 eligible, are as follows. Of the 203,018 votes, 194,451 were valid (marking 44.17% turnout).


2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Results
Since Huldai's share of the vote exceeded the 40% threshold required to avert a runoff election, no runoff was held.


2018 Tel Aviv mayoral election, Results
Huldai was seen as managing to both retain his strong support among the city's younger electorate, as well as retain a base of fervent supporters among a minority of the city's older residents.


2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election
The Telangana Legislative Assembly election was held in Telangana on 7 December 2018 to constitute the second Legislative Assembly since the formation of the state in 2014. The incumbent Telangana Rashtra Samithi, the Indian National Congress, Telangana Jana Samithi, and Telugu Desam Party were the main contestants in the election. Four opposition parties in the state, the INC, the TJS, the TDP and the CPI announced the formation of a 'Maha Kootami' (Grand Alliance), to defeat the ruling TRS in the elections. However, the Maha Kootami could not win a majority; the TRS won and formed the government once again


2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election, Background
K. Chandrashekar Rao went for early elections in 2018, when he resigned 6 September 2018, nine months before the completion of his term.


2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election, Background
This election led to the alliance of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Indian National Congress (INC), once arch rivals, coming together as part of Praja or Maha Kuutami for the first time.


2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election, Background, Electoral process changes (E.C.I)
Election Commission of India announced that Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines will be used in all 32,574 polling stations in the assembly elections in Telangana. According to the final electoral rolls published on 12 October 2018, Telangana has 2,80,64,680 voters, which is less than 2,81,65,885 voters in 2014 Telangana assembly elections. There were around 2,600+ transgenders in the voters list.


2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election, Schedule
The date of the election was 7 December 2018 and the result were to bre out on 11 December 2018.


2018 Telangana T20 League
The 2018 season of the Telangana T20 League, also known as Venkataswamy T20 tournament, was the first edition of the TTL, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Telangana, India. The league was formed by the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HYCA) in 2017. After Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Telangana became third state in South India to launch its state T20 league with an initiative to provide major boost to rural cricketers who lag behind dur to lack of proper infrastructure and coaching facilities.


2018 Telangana T20 League
The owners of the teams competing in the league are announced on 13 January 2018 by HYCA who have been selected on a first-come-first-serve basis after submitting an Expression of Interest and paying Rs 12.5 lakh each to HYCA for one-year contract. The team colours and logos were launched on 2 February 2018 with the inaugural match being held on 3 February at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad


2018 Telangana T20 League
Adilabad Tigers won the inaugural tournament beating Medak Mavericks by 9 runs and Hitesh Yadav was adjudged as the man of the match for the Final.


2018 Telangana T20 League, Tournament results, Points rable
Hyderabad Thunderbolts along with Rangareddy Risers, Adilabad Tigers and Medak Mavericks moved into semifinals of Telangana T20 tournament.