Following the 2004 season, the Diamondbacks hired Wally Backman to be the team's manager.

Following the regular season, in which the 12-4 Panthers won their third NFC South division title, they hosted the Cardinals at Bank of America Stadium in the Panthers first home playoff game since January 2004.

Following the 1899 season, the National League disbanded four teams, including the Cleveland franchise.

Following the 1947 season, the American League countered with a rule change that fixed the distance of an outfield wall for the duration of a season.

Following the ' 69 season, the club posted winning records for the next few seasons, but no playoff action.

Following the 1991 season, Essendon moved from its traditional home ground at Windy Hill to the larger and newly renovated MCG.

Following their first season, he made his Broadway directorial debut with Antonia by Hungarian playwright Melchior Lengyel, then returned to Rochester, where C. F.

Following the Colts first NFL championship, the team once again posted a 9 – 3 record during the 1959 season and would defeat the Giants once again in the NFL Championship Game to claim their second title in back to back fashion.

Following Unitas ' departure, the Colts would make the playoffs three consecutive season from 1975 to 1977, losing in the divisional round each time.

Following two consecutive playoff losses to the Patriots, the Colts began the 2005 season with a 13 – 0 record, including a regular season victory over the Patriots, the first in the Manning era.

Following their Super Bowl championship, the Colts would go onto a 13 – 3 record during the 2007 season and would lose to the San Diego Chargers in the divisional playoffs, which would be the final game the Colts played at the RCA Dome, with the Colts moving into Lucas Oil Stadium in 2008.

Following the season, head coach Tony Dungy announced his retirement after seven seasons as head coach, compiling an overall record of 92 – 33 with the team.

Following a 2006 season in which they missed the playoffs, Lamar Hunt sold the club in August 2006 to OnGoal, LLC, a six-man ownership group led by Cerner Corporation co-founders Neal Patterson and Cliff Illig, a local group committed to keeping the Wizards in Kansas City.

Following the end of the season, Liverpool sacked Dalglish on 16 May 2012, citing that " results in the Premier League have been disappointing ".

Following the season one finale, Lex's corpse disappears from the coroner's office.

Following the league's dissolution after only one season, Newton Heath joined the newly formed Football Alliance, which ran for three seasons before being merged with the Football League.

Following an eighth-place finish in the 1969 – 70 season and a poor start to the 1970 – 71 season, Busby was persuaded to temporarily resume managerial duties, and McGuinness returned to his position as reserve team coach.

Following the season, Ron Gardenhire received AL Manager of the Year honors after finishing as a runner up in several prior years.

Following the strike-shortened 1987 season, the 8 – 7 Vikings, who had finished 8 – 4 in regular games but 0 – 3 using strike-replacement players, pulled two upsets in the playoffs by beating the two teams with the best regular season records.

Following the 1977 season, the Brewers made two big hires that turned the previously underachieving Brewers into perennial contenders.

Following a disappointing 7 – 9 record in the 2007 season, the Saints ended the 2008 season 8 – 8.

Following its September 1921 release, Chaplin chose to return to England for the first time in almost a decade.

Following World War II, the major European powers divested themselves of their colonies at an increasing rate: the number of ex-colonial states jumped from about 30 to almost 120 after the war.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

Following that ruling in favor of the plaintiff labels and studios, Grokster almost immediately settled the case.

Following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, Gaddafi decided to abandon his weapons of mass destruction programs and pay almost 3 billion euros in compensation to the families of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772.

Following a service at Saint Isaac's Cathedral, she was interred next to her husband Alexander III in the Peter and Paul Cathedral on 28 September 2006, 140 years after her first arrival to Russia and almost 78 years after her death.

Following this model the Mario series has gone on to become the best selling video game franchise of all time with 193 million units sold as of January 2007, almost 40 million units ahead of second ranked franchise ( Pokémon, also by Nintendo ).

Following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Lwów came under the control of the Soviet Union for almost two years.

Following the law of demand, the demand curve is almost always represented as downward-sloping, meaning that as price decreases, consumers will buy more of the good.

Following the time of the conquest of the last of the independent Greek city-states and Hellenistic ( post-Alexandrine ) kingdoms, almost all of the world's Greek speakers lived as citizens or subjects of the Roman Empire.

Following almost 200 studies of 11 anti-seizure drugs, the FDA has also warned of an increased suicide risk for any patients treated with certain anti-seizure drugs.

Following R v Mitchell ( 2005 ) All ER ( D ) 74, the sentencing guidelines provided in Attorney General's References ( Nos 4 and 7 of 2002 ) ( 2002 ) EWCA Crim 127 no longer apply to street robbery involving the use of guns for which more severe deterrent sentences will almost invariably be required.

Following this accident he was unable to lift his left arm for some time and almost fainted during a speech in Almedalen on 10 July 2002 and after a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on 15 July 2002.

" Following its release in 1960, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen proved to be a " resounding success ... both critically and commercially ", later being described as " a tour de force of the imagination, a novel that showed almost every writer who came afterwards what it was possible to achieve in novels ostensibly published for children.

Following the Civil War, coal production rose ; but by 1900, almost all the mines were gone.

Following a typical pattern of development throughout the 20th century, the results are a mature railroad suburb almost covered with housing units, commercial, municipal, and ecclesiastical buildings.

Following a two-hour artillery barrage meant to soften up the Union defenses, the three divisions stepped off across open fields almost a mile from Cemetery Ridge.

Following Rothesay's death — with the restoration of the lieutenancy to Albany and the Scottish defeat at the battle of Humbleton — Robert III experienced almost total exclusion from political authority and was limited to his lands in the west.

Following a few years of consistent touring and local gigs, The Spunks disbanded when members Hajime and Joji decided to move back to Japan after having lived in the US for almost 9 years.

" Following, and apparently related to, these events, the condition which came to be known as the process started to affect him, in September and October of that year, as a regular, almost nightly occurrence.

Following the Third Dragon War, in the Age of Might, the Cataclysm obliterates the great empire of Istar and changes almost the entire surface of Krynn.

Following re-entry, the module's parachutes deployed only partially, and a failure of the soft-landing retrorockets in the base of the descent module caused a hard landing which almost wrecked the module, and broke some of Volynov's teeth.

Following the eighth round, Abdullaev's eye was swollen to the point of being almost entirely closed.

Following an extended period of depression following the death in 2005 of his life-partner, Charles Naylor, Disch stopped writing almost entirely, except for poetry – although he did produce two novellas.

Following the end of the war, it remained in Korea for almost 20 years guarding the Korean Demilitarized Zone.