By this time Colangelo and the other partners were embroiled in a dispute over the financial health and direction of the Diamondbacks ( and notably including over $ 150 million in deferred compensation to many players who were key members of the 2001 World Series winning team and others ).

However, since 2001, more emphasis has been placed on Defense-Independent Pitching Statistics, including Defense-Independent ERA ( dERA ), in an attempt to evaluate a pitcher's performance regardless of the strength of the defensive players behind him.

The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

Verant from 1999 to 2001 and SOE from 2001 to 14 January 2004 issued formal statements giving some indications of the number of EQ subscriptions and peak numbers of players online at any given moment.

When he retired in 2001, he remained one of the most beloved players in the Turkish and Romanian championships.

In late February and early March 2001, Polgár played in the elite Linares double round-robin invitational of six of the world's strongest players.

During this period in their history, standout players included defensive end Michael Strahan, who set the NFL single season record in sacks in 2001, and running back Tiki Barber, who set a team record for rushing yards in a season in 2005.

While he has two championship rings with the 1999 – 2000 Yankees, Clemens has also been on the losing end of four World Series ( 1986 Red Sox, 2001 and 2003 Yankees, and 2005 Astros ), which is tied with Tom Glavine and John Smoltz ( who were both on the Braves when they lost the ' 91, ' 92, ' 96 and ' 99 World Series ) for the most among active players.

Furthermore, Sosa is one of only two National League players to ever reach 160 RBIs in a season, a milestone he reached in 2001.

After signing several new defensive players in the offseason, and hiring new defensive coordinator Lovie Smith, the Rams finished the 2001 season with the NFL's best regular season record at 14 – 2.

In 2001, Nike aired a commercial featuring a diverse group of Major League Baseball players singing lines of the song in their native languages.

In 2001 he was named as centre half-forward and captain of North Melbourne's Team of the Century and in 2008 was named as Australian football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, which was released by the League to celebrate 150 years of Australian rules football.

Unlike previous campaign settings, in which the calendar was frozen at a point chosen by the author, the Living Greyhawk calendar did advance one year in game time for every calendar year in real time: the campaign started in 591 CY ( 2001 ) and ended in 598 CY ( 2008 ), at which point over a thousand adventures had been produced for an audience of over ten thousand players.

There were no qualifying matches ( also true of the first orthodox world chess champion titleholders ), but both players were in the top five in the January 2001 world rankings for orthodox chess.

Both Heatley and Kovalchuk played their first season in the NHL in 2001 – 02 ; both players were named to the NHL All-Rookie Team and Heatley was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's Rookie of the Year.

Miami rounded out its 2001 – 02 season roster with players well past their prime such as Rod Strickland, Chris Gatling, Jim Jackson, LaPhonso Ellis and Kendall Gill along with Mourning, Jones, Grant and Carter, whom the Heat signed to a controversial three-year deal that many said was far too much for the young guard.

For two decades, from 1980 to 2001, only three players won the Art Ross Trophy — Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, and Jaromir Jagr.

Norman got payback of a sort in the 2001 Skins Game, in which he not only defeated Woods ( as well as Colin Montgomerie and Jesper Parnevik ), he also was the only person in Skins Game history to sweep all the prize money ( 1 million dollars ) and leave the other players, including Woods, empty handed.

* A 2001 Oklahoma State basketball team plane crash in Colorado killed two Oklahoma State University basketball players and eight other individuals associated with the team.

In 2001 the 4th edition rules, with corrections and retitled 4th Edition Gold, were placed on the Games Workshop website as a downloadable pdf file, and Johnson announced that the rules were now " experimental " and announced the creation of the Blood Bowl Rules Committee ( BBRC ), a group of Blood Bowl players, some GW staff, most not, that would look at the rules once a year and produce new official rules changes and experimental rules for possible inclusion in the future rules changes.

In 2001, EverQuest players Brock Pierce and Alan Debonneville founded Internet Gaming Entertainment Ltd ( IGE ), a company that offered not only the virtual commodities in exchange for real money but also provided professional customer service.

In 2001, he claimed to have broken the HDCP system that is incorporated into HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs players, similar to the DVDs Content Scramble System, but has not published his research, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which would make such publication illegal.

Brett Garsed and T. J. Helmerich are also watched as prominent fusion guitar players, having released several albums together since the beginning of the 1990s ( Quid Pro Quo ( 1992 ), Exempt ( 1994 ), Under the Lash of Gravity ( 1999 ), Uncle Moe's Space Ranch ( 2001 ), Moe's Town ( 2007 )) and collaborating in many other projects or releasing solo albums ( Brett Garsed – Big Sky ) all them falling in the genre.

Gaddafi rejected both Soviet communism and Western capitalism and claimed he was charting a middle course for his government .< ref > The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, ( 2001 – 2005 ), < u >" Qaddafi, Muammar al -"< u >, Bartleby Books.

On 21 September 2001, the Taliban rejected this ultimatum, stating there was no evidence in their possession linking bin Laden to the 11 September attacks.

In December 2001, Brazil rejected Paraguay's petition to extradite Oviedo to stand trial for the March 1999 assassination and " Marzo Paraguayo " incident.

The Bush administration explicitly rejected the protocol in 2001.

However, this meeting took place after George W. Bush had become the President of the United States and had rejected the Kyoto Protocol in March 2001 ; as a result the United States delegation to this meeting declined to participate in the negotiations related to the Protocol and chose to take the role of observer at the meeting.

A combined analysis of morphological and molecular data conducted by Lee ( 2001 ) found turtles to be anapsids ( though a relationship with archosaurs couldn't be statistically rejected ).

To the surprise of the Irish government and the other EU member states Irish voters rejected the Treaty of Nice in June 2001.

A few months later, UserLand filed a U. S. trademark registration for RSS, but failed to respond to a USPTO trademark examiner's request and the request was rejected in December 2001.

This close decision — the majority was only 33 votes according to early results — marked the fourth attempt to change the borough's historic name of West Paterson: voters rejected the names " Whispering Pines ", " West Park ," and " Garret Mountain " in 1989, 1995, and 2001 respectively.

Twice, the city of Westminster sought to declare for bankruptcy ; the first effort, in 2001, failed after creditors rejected a payout plan.

In the United States there have been a number of attempts to enshrine a patient's bill of rights in law, including a bill rejected by Congress in 2001.

Ted Turner, however, was still in charge of Time Warner prior to the final merger of AOL and Time Warner in 2001, and most offers were rejected.

Although the publishers were convinced it would be rejected by the American reading public after the September 11, 2001 attacks, it spent 50 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list ( eight weeks at # 1 ) for hardcover nonfiction and is in its 43rd printing.

A proposal to do this by Minister De Vries in 2001, under the second Kok cabinet, was rejected in second reading by the Senate.

They have twice rejected a renovation, with the 2001 price tag at $ 269 million.

The show assumed the previously rejected Extended Play moniker in 2001 after ZDTV changed to TechTV and the partnership with Ziff Davis ' GameSpot ended.

He then rejected offers for a senior post after the 2001 legislative elections.

The novel was rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001.

This move prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled in an out-of-court settlement in which Sony gave up all claims on Bond, although McClory still claimed he would proceed with another Bond film, and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq ; on 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's suit.

Such legislation was last proposed following the conviction of Jeffrey Archer for perjury in 2001, but was then rejected.

Plans for a ' Hastings Bexhill bypass ' which would have provided a dual-carriageway from the Pevensey roundabout passing to the north of Bexhill and Hastings to join the current A259 near Icklesham at a cost of £ 120 -£ 130 million were rejected in 2001.

KMFDM reformed in 2001, though Schulz and Esch rejected Konietzko's offer to return to the fold.

It was originally pitched to the Fox Broadcasting Company but was rejected and it was later picked by MTV in 2001.

Circuit: former Judge Robert Bork, who was rejected by the Senate, and former ( 2001 – 2008 ) Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg ( no relation to Ruth Bader Ginsburg ), who withdrew his nomination after it became known that he had used marijuana as a college student and professor in the 1960s and 1970s.