In 2004, ESPN ranked boxing as the most difficult sport in the world.

The first World Cheerleading Championships, or Cheerleading Worlds, were hosted by the USASF / IASF at the Walt Disney World Resort and taped for an ESPN global broadcast in 2004.

In September 2004, Roger Lodge hosted a sports trivia game show on ESPN titled ESPN Trivial Pursuit, which aired five episodes.

Further adding to the debate was the 2004 ESPN made-for-TV movie Hustle, starring Tom Sizemore as Rose, which documents Rose's gambling problem and his subsequent ban from baseball.

A somber note was struck in February 2004, when ESPN named the Blackhawks the worst franchise in professional sports.

In 2004, ESPN named him the third-best all-around athlete of all time in any sport.

In late 2003 and early 2004, the boys ' high school basketball team of the K-12 Watersmeet Township School ( at the time, 9-12 grade enrollment 78 ; it has since absorbed 13 of neighboring Marenisco's 60 K-12 students and 2005-2006 enrollment now stands at 96 ) was featured in a series of commercials on ESPN.

The game is mentioned briefly in John Huston's film The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ), the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ( 2004 ) during advertisements for the fictional ESPN 8 ( El Ocho ) television channel, and the Bollywood movie Kabul Express ( 2006 ).

Around the same time in 2004, the Forward Association also sold off its interest in WEVD to The Walt Disney Company's sports division, ESPN.

* Caddyshack, an homage to Doug Kenney, ESPN / Golf Digest, April 2004

In 2004, it was named by ESPN as the best overall sports venue in the U. S. The 10 millionth person passed through the gates on July 3, 2007.

* Carlos Palomino ESPN article by Tim Graham ( June 11, 2004 )

After Sega's ESPN NFL 2K5 successfully grabbed market share away from EA's dominant Madden NFL series during the 2004 holiday season, EA responded by making several large sports licensing deals which include an exclusive agreement with the NFL, and in January 2005, a 15-year deal with ESPN.

Two of the school's most famous athletic alumni are former Notre Dame basketball coach and current ESPN sportscaster Digger Phelps, who played basketball at Rider from 1959 to 1963 and Jason Thompson who played basketball at Rider from 2004 to 2008 and was drafted by the Sacramento Kings with the 12th pick of the 2008 NBA Draft while never winning a MAAC championship or appearing in the NCAA Tournament.

After his retirement from baseball, Sutcliffe became a color commentator for the San Diego Padres on Channel 4 San Diego ( 1997 – 2004 ), ESPN ( 1998 – present ) and DirecTV / MLB International ( 1997 – 2002 and since 2010, as well as a minor-league pitching coach in the San Diego Padres system for a couple of seasons.

In 2004, Crackerjack Television started producing an Australian version of the show, which airs weekly on the Australian ESPN channel and features former Australian Rules footballer Sam Kekovich and radio and television broadcaster Russell Barwick.

As further acknowledgement of his new-found star status, in August 2004 he was chosen as the cover model for the Sega ® ESPN NHL 2K5 home video game.

Summerall called several preseason and early regular-season NFL games for the ESPN network in 2004, substituting for regular announcer Mike Patrick while the latter recovered from heart surgery.

Cheap Seats, a show that ran on ESPN Classic from 2004 to 2006, borrowed its format from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

In 2004, in a poll by ESPN, participated in by 15 of the leading names in cricketing history, Richards was voted the third greatest ever player after Bradman and Sobers, and the second greatest ever batsman after Bradman.

Since 2004, sportswriters, broadcasters, sports executives, and sportspersons, collectively experts ; or ESPN personalities also vote.

The 2002 – 03 and 2004 – 05 National Champion Mascot of the Year ( Capital One / ESPN ) has evolved into a " motorcycle-riding, break-dancing, back flipping, slam-dunking, movie-making, crowd-surfing, goal post smashing, prank-pulling superstar that makes the women of Montana swoon.

In 2004, NHK ( Japanese public TV network ) produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, as well as a manga series under the same title released in 2005.

During that period he also released his work on Bertini type theorems contained in EGA 5, published by the Grothendieck Circle in 2004.

A conversion of the popular computer game was released by GCC in 2004.

In 2004, Atari ( now owned by Infogrames ) released the first Atari Flashback console.

In 2004, he released his autobiography My Life.

Clinton released a best-selling autobiography, My Life in 2004.

" All will be released into the wild near Mount Kenya. In 2004 Woburn Safari Parks ' Dr. Jake Veasey ; the Head of the Department of Animal Management and Conservation at Woburn Safari Park and a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums Population Management Advisory Group, with the assistance of Lindsay Banks took over responsibility for the management and coordination of the European Endangered species Programme ( EEP ) for the eastern bongo.

They released a concert DVD in 2004 on Hydra Records, played the Viper Room in West Hollywood in 2005, and performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri in 2006-07.

The same problem arose, several years later, with the Valech Report, released in 2004 and which counted almost 30, 000 victims of torture, among testimonies from 35, 000 persons.

20th Century Fox and Legend Films released a colorized version of the film on DVD on April 20, 2004, a reference to its ironic appeal ( see 420 ( cannabis culture )).

In 2002, Love began composing an album with Linda Perry ; the record, America's Sweetheart, was released on Virgin Records in February 2004, was embraced by critics with mixed reviews.

Neagle went 19 – 23 in three years with the Rockies ; he was injured in 2003 and never pitched in the majors again before the Rockies released him after the 2004 season.

Tim Finn had resumed his solo career after leaving the group in 1992 and he also worked with Neil on a second Finn Brothers album, Everyone Is Here, which was released in 2004.

In 2004 the British hip hop group The Streets released A Grand Don't Come for Free, a concept album charting a period of the protagonists life in which he meets a girl, starts a relationship with her and then breaks up with her after finding out she has been cheating on him.

Amos also featured her use of the clavinet on her 2004 recording " Not David Bowie ", released as part of her 2006 box set, A Piano: The Collection.

After his death, the Looney Tunes cartoon Daffy Duck for President, based on the book that Jones had written and using Jones ' style for the characters, originally scheduled to be released in 2000, was released in 2004 as part of disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 DVD set.

It was not until 2004 that Reprise Records released a single-disc retrospective of his best-known tracks, titled Greatest Hits.

In late 2004, he released the EP Merry F #%$ in ' Christmas, which included a mix of new music, previously unreleased recordings, and some tracks from Lock ' n Load.

EverQuest II was released in late 2004.

In 2004, Godzilla: Final Wars, directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, was released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Godzilla.

In 2004, Mamoru Oshii released the anime movie Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence which received critical praise around the world.

Katsuhiro Otomo released Steamboy, his first animated project since the 1995 short film compilation Memories, in 2004.

Several other films dealing with inner city issues and Black Britons were released in the 2000s such as Bullet Boy ( 2004 ), Life and Lyrics ( 2006 ) and Rollin ' With the Nines ( 2009 ).