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 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 every House of Keys general election, the members of Tynwald elect from amongst themselves the Chief Minister of the Isle of Man, who serves as the head of government for five years ( until the next general election ).

Following the two championships in 1958 and 1959, the Colts did not return to the NFL Championship for four seasons and saw a transition from head coach Ewbank to a young Don Shula in 1963.

Following Bakker's resignation as PTL head, he was succeeded in late March, 1987, by Jerry Falwell.

Following the 1990 season, Parcells resigned as head coach and was replaced by the team's offensive coordinator, Ray Handley.

Following the season, the Giants fired first-year defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan, and replaced him with the former Buffalo Bills interim head coach, Perry Fewell.

Following residency training some otolaryngologists elect to complete advanced subspeciality fellowship training which can be 1 – 2 years in duration ( pediatric otolaryngology, neuro-otology, laryngology, facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, rhinology, or head and neck oncology ).

Following the end of his political career, Khasbulatov returned to his earlier profession as a teacher of economics as founder and head of the Department of International Economy at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics ( REA ).

Following the parliamentary election in July 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the prime minister and the world's first elected female head of state.

Following a dispute over ownership of Casablancas Oscar for Best Picture, head producer Hal B. Wallis broke with Warner and resigned.

Following an August 23, 1971, bank robbery in Queens, Shakur was sought for questioning, and a photograph of a woman ( who was later alleged to be Shakur ) with thick rimmed black glasses, a high hairdo pulled tightly over her head, and a steadily pointed gun became ubiquitous in banks and full page print ads paid for by the New York Clearing House Association.

Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Pinkerton served as head of the Union Intelligence Service in 1861 – 1862 and foiled an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland, while guarding Abraham Lincoln on his way to his inauguration.

Following the invasion of the USSR, Rosenberg was appointed head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories ( Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete ).

Following the defeat of the Guominjun in the Anti – Fengtian War Feng Yuxiang participated in the Northern Expedition, Sòng assumed the Chairmanship of Shaanxi province in November 1927 and in April of the same year the head of 4th division under the II Corps of the National Revolutionary Army.

Following the arrest of the KPD's leader, Ernst Thälmann, Ulbricht campaigned to be Thälmann's replacement as head of the Party.

Following up this massive display of artillery would be twenty-two British and French divisions, passing through the barriers and occupying the trenches filled with stunned German soldiers so that his divisions could head off into the open.

Following this refusal, the National Congress appointed Erasme-Louis, Baron Surlet de Chokier to be the Regent of Belgium on 25 February 1831, thus becoming the first head of state of independent Belgium.

* Following the death of his mentor, Cleanthes of Assos, Chrysippus of Soli succeeds him as the third head of the Stoic school.

Following a pre-arranged protocol, Napoléon first crowned himself, then put the crown on Joséphine's head, proclaiming her empress.

Following the season, the Flyers were stunned when head coach Fred Shero left to become general manager and head coach of the Rangers.

Following more than a decade as NASA's head of space medicine, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific, and medical communities.

Following her death, Beowulf finds Grendel's corpse and removes his head, which he keeps as a trophy.

Following the crisis, Christian accepted his drastically reduced role as symbolic head of state.