After the 2003 season, the Cleveland Rockers, one of the league's original eight teams, folded because the owners were unwilling to continue operating the franchise.

# Punk Rockers ( 2003, Sex Pistols, DVD )

The Cleveland Rockers were a Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ) team that played from 1997 until 2003.

In September 2003, Gund announced that his Gund Arena Company would no longer operate the Rockers.

2003 was the Rockers ' last playoff appearance.

However, despite fielding competitive teams and having decent attendance for most games, the Gund family decided they did not wish to operate the Rockers after the 2003 season.

* Rockers ( 2003 )

A worldwide deal with Mute ( in conjunction with City Rockers in the UK and with Birdman in America ) led to the release of " Phoenix " in 2003.

In 2003 and 2004, there would be dispersal drafts due to the folding of the Cleveland Rockers, Miami Sol and Portland Fire.

* Foundation Rockers ( 2003 )

After the 2002 season ended, the Miami Sol folded, and Lennox was selected by the Cleveland Rockers in the 2003 WNBA Dispersal draft.

When the Rockers folded after the 2003 season ended, Lennox went through another Dispersal Draft before the 2004 season.

During the 2003 WNBA season, Darling started all 34 games for Cleveland finishing the season with 128 assists, the second-highest single season total in Rockers history and averaging 4. 1 points, 3. 8 assists, 2. 6 rebounds in 24. 5 minutes.

After the 2003 WNBA season the Cleveland Rockers decided to fold, a dispersal draft was held.

Upon graduation, she became the first athlete from the state of Mississippi to be taken as a top pick in a professional draft, going No. 1 to the Cleveland Rockers in the 2003 WNBA Draft.

Thomas was selected by the Cleveland Rockers with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2003 WNBA Draft.

In December 2003 Aston Martin announced it would return to motor racing in 2005.

Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, September 14, 2003: U. S. Air Force Thunderbirds Captain Christopher Stricklin Ejection seat | ejecting from his F-16 after realizing he could not pull up in time from a Split S | Split-S and ensuring the aircraft would not crash into spectators.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (" A Scream in the Silence "), she warned of an “ Islamicization of France ”, and said of Muslim immigration: In May 2003 the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) announced they would sue Bardot for the comments.

Jim Souhan of the Minneapolis Star Tribune said he did not see Matsui as a rookie in 2003 because " it would be an insult to the Japanese league to pretend that experience didn't count.

Bet would subsequently make brief return appearances in 1999, 2002 and 2003.

The intention was that these facilities would provide extra revenue to support the football side of the business, but they were less successful than hoped and before the Abramovich takeover in 2003 the debt taken on to finance them was a major burden on the club.

* 2002 – 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $ 35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.

He declined the royal honour of Commander of the British Empire in 2000, and turned down a knighthood in 2003, stating: " I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that.

The 2003 Berkeley report stated that in 2002 alone, " telephone calls worldwide on both landlines and mobile phones contained 17. 3 exabytes of new information if stored in digital form " and that " it would take 9. 25 exabytes of storage to hold all U. S. calls each year.

This song would later be adapted into " Christmas Is All Around " and sung by the character of Billy Mack in Richard Curtis ' 2003 film Love Actually, in which Grant also stars.

Although FY 2003 began with the rapid decline of the gourde due to rumors that U. S. dollar deposit accounts would be nationalized and due to the withdrawal of fuel subsidies, the government successfully stabilized the gourde as it took the politically difficult decisions to float fuel prices freely according to world market prices and to raise interest rates.

The album peaked at # 9 on Billboard magazine's Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums and at # 14 on the Billboard 200, spawning several singles including " Gotta Lotta Love ", " I Ain't New To This " and " 99 Problems " – which would later inspire Jay-Z to record a version with new lyrics in 2003.

The Colts would lose to the New England Patriots and Tom Brady in the 2003 AFC Championship Game and the 2004 divisional playoffs beginning a rivalry between the two team, and more importantly between Manning and Brady.

The Colts won their first two playoff games against the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens to return to the AFC Championship Game for the first time since the 2003 game, and they would face the same opponent in the New England Patriots.

The 32-bit flat memory model of the 386 would arguably be the most important feature change for the x86 processor family until AMD released x86-64 in 2003.

In 2003, the director of Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre ( APNIC ), Paul Wilson, stated that, based on then-current rates of deployment, the available space would last for one or two decades.

* 2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one.

By June 2003, the lower house of Parliament announced that President Akayev and two other " puppet " leaders of Kyrgyzstan, from the Soviet era, would be given lifetime immunity from prosecution, raising the prospect of Akayev finally stepping down.

The Wizards would return to the top half of the West in 2003 with a record of 11 – 10 – 9.

That set up a one-game showdown with the San Jose Earthquakes the winner would advance to the 2003 MLS Cup.

The Wizards would twice take the lead, but twice, the Earthquakes battled back and forced golden goal in overtime by Landon Donovan in the 117th minute, which sent his team to the 2003 MLS Cup and the Wizards home.

After a visit to Transmeta in late 1996, Torvalds accepted a position at the company in California, where he would work from February 1997 until June 2003.

A Royal Mail press release in April 2003 said that the railway would be closed and mothballed at the end of May that year.

In July 2001, Epic Games announced that its upcoming game Unreal Tournament 2003 would include Matinee, a machinima production software utility.

"--- what Jesus ’ immortal spirit did after His death and before His Resurrection is a mystery to all but the Latter-day Saints ---" ( Elder Spencer J. Condie, Liahona ,-Church magazine – July, 2003 ) "--- unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant-- his voice was not raised.

The Oyster card is a contactless smart card system introduced for the public in 2003, which can be used to pay individual fares ( pay as you go ) or to carry various Travelcards and other passes.

In response to criticisms of the Institute stating that the amendment was a federal education policy requiring inclusion of alternatives to evolution be taught, which it was not, in 2003 intelligent design's three most prominent legislators, John Boehner, Judd Gregg and Santorum provided a letter to the Discovery Institute giving it the go ahead to invoke the amendment as evidence of " Congress's rejection of the idea that students only need to learn about the dominant scientific view of controversial topics ".

The 2003 – 04 season ended on a high point for Bergkamp as Arsenal reclaimed the league title, becoming the first English team in more than a century to go through the entire domestic league season unbeaten.

Because of his commitments to numerous other projects, Universal was forced to go without del Toro, and hired Tedi Sarafian ( credited on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ) to write a script in March 2003.

" Bill Walton said at the time that Nets-Celtics was the " beginning of the next great NBA rivalry " during the Eastern Conference Finals in 2002 with the Nets advancing to the NBA Finals, though New Jersey would go on to sweep Boston in the 2003 playoffs.

After a rough end to the season, only winning two games in March of that year, the Stars shocked everyone by winning the first two games of the series in Anaheim, and then would go on to finish off the Ducks in six games, their first playoff series win since 2003.

During the runup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq he warned of a possible " Tonkin Gulf scenario " that could be used to justify going to war, and called on government " insiders " to go public with information to counter the Bush administration's pro-war propaganda campaign, praising Scott Ritter for his efforts in that regard.

Despite reports that the band began work on a sixth studio album in 2002 that reportedly would go back to their Core-era sound and planned on releasing it in 2003, the band had dissolved by the end of 2002, after reports of an altercation between Dean DeLeo and Weiland after the last show of Stone Temple Pilots ' fall 2002 tour.

This work brought legal threats against The ECC by CBS, but by 2003, CBS appears to have let the issue go by.

A notice will go out with the 2003 tax bill informing residents that the 1997 ordinance is in effect.

He also mentioned that the band would " record some new songs " before he would " go leave town on a business trip " and was hoping for an early 2003 release.

The band continued to tour but in December 2003, they announced their decision to go on a hiatus and were forced to forgo that year's Hometown Throwdown.

Clozapine can cause agranulocytosis ( which is decreased number of white blood cells ), Barker ( 2003 ) explains that a person on clozapine will have to go through rigorous blood monitoring.

These archives will eventually go up to 2003.

The following season, Wimbledon FC would go on to play in front of record low crowds, including just 664 for a League Cup game against Rotherham, before finally completing the move in September 2003.

In addition, for the past six years beginning in 2003, JINSA has honored six enlisted representatives of the U. S. Armed Services and U. S. Special Operations Command, each selected by their respective services, with the " Grateful Nation Award " for duty that, while exemplary, might otherwise go unrecognized.

In 2003, the Freedom were just good enough to make the playoffs, clinching the fourth and final spot with two games to go.

For this reason the tactics of the race are generally to go fast early on, and few races have a change of the lead after half-way ( though this happened in 2003, 2007 and 2010 ).

Gudykunst and Kim ( 2003 ) go more for forced compliance via public education as they argue that the new kind of better person and world they promote can be created by " programming " peoples ' minds ( p. 358 ) through intense socialization so that the cultural patterns they ( Gudykunst and Kim ) evaluate as good are " etched into our nervous systems and become part of our personalities and behavior " ( p. 376 ).

However, President Bush signed a bill authorizing the no-call list to go ahead in September 2003.

The United Kingdom had a national selection to choose the song that will go to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003.

There were plans for him to play a fourteen-game match against Kasparov in Yalta in September 2003, the winner of which would go on to play the winner of a match between Vladimir Kramnik and Péter Lékó as part of the so-called " Prague Agreement " to reunify the World Chess Championship ( from 1993 until 2006 there were two world chess championships ).

The AHL version of the Aeros would go on to win the 2003 Calder Cup ; they would reach the 2011 Calder Cup finals as well, but lost to the Binghamton Senators.