In 1998, under recently acquired head coach Dan Reeves, quarterback Chris Chandler and running back Jamal Anderson the " Dirty Bird " Falcons had their greatest season to date.

In the second game of the Falcons 1999 season, running back Jamaal Anderson, who had been a key player in the Falcons ' 1998 success, suffered a season-ending knee injury.

In 2010, with a regular season record of 13 – 3, their best regular season record since the 1998 Super Bowl season, the Falcons secured a third straight winning season, their fourth overall divisional title, and the top overall seed in the NFC playoffs ; however, the Falcons were overpowered by the eventual Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs 48 – 21.

Also known as the D-Backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest expansion team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since their expansion in 1998.

On March 9, 1995, Colangelo's group was awarded a franchise to begin play for the 1998 season.

Since 1998, home field advantage has been given to the team that has the better regular season record, unless that team happens to be the Wild Card team.

Since the retirement of Cal Ripken Jr. in 2001, the Orioles began a downward spiral, compiling a losing record in every season between 1998 and 2011.

The Orioles finished the first half of the 2012 season with a winning record for only the second time since 1998, with a record of 45-40 before the All-Star break.

The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

After a six-year search for a new commissioner, the owners voted to give Selig the title on a permanent basis midway through the 1998 season.

After the Panthers ' success in 1996, Capers led the Panthers through two disappointing seasons: a 7 – 9 season in 1997, and a 4 – 12 season in 1998 which resulted in Capers being fired after four seasons with the team.

That mark set an American League record for wins which stood for 44 years until the Yankees won 114 games in 1998 ( a 162-game regular season ).

After defeating the wild-card Boston Red Sox 3-1 in the Division Series, Cleveland lost the 1998 ALCS in six games to the New York Yankees, who had come into the playoffs with a then-AL record 114 wins in the regular season.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

In 1998, the team wore blue pants with their white jerseys along with grey socks but dropped that combination after the season.

With the Bombers looking towards a new era, it was announced on 27 September that Matthew Lloyd would replace James Hird as Essendon captain for the 2006 season, marking the end of Hird's reign since he took over the captaincy in 1998.

* Livan Hernandez ( 1996 – 1998 ) — Hernandez's rookie season coincided with the 1997 World Series.

* Derrek Lee ( 1998 – 2003 ) — Lee won a Gold Glove in the 2003 championship season.

In the 1998 season, the Astros set a team record with 102 victories.

The team and Manning struggled during the 1998 season, winning only three games and Manning throwing a league high 28 interceptions.

The Colts began to improve towards the end of the 1998 season and showed continued growth in 1999.

Between 1985 and 1998 he represented Colombia in 111 full internationals and scored 11 times, making him the most capped player in the country's history.

During the 1998 Test series against England, Cronje scored five consecutive fifties, having failed to score one in the nine previous Tests against them.

Other films scored by Sakamoto include Pedro Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos ( High Heels ) ( 1991 ), Bertolucci's The Little Buddha ( 1993 ), Oliver Stone's Wild Palms ( 1993 ), John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon ( 1998 ), Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes ( 1998 ) and Femme Fatale ( 2002 ), Oshima's Gohatto ( 1999 ), and Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat ( 2011 ).

The first golden goal in World Cup history took place in 1998, as Laurent Blanc scored to enable France to defeat Paraguay in the Round of 16.

This final had the highest number of goals scored by a winning team ( 5 ), the highest number of total goals scored ( 7 ); together with the World Cup finals in 1970 and 1998, it also had the greatest victory margin ( 3 ).

Several individuals have consistently scored highly and / or earned medals on the IMO: Reid Barton ( United States ) was the first participant to win a gold medal four times ( 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 ).

Dave Brubeck, the famous jazz pianist, was raised in Ione and in 1998 scored a video tour of the castle called " A Castle's Song ", sold through KVIE to help fund the restoration efforts.

The Menominee Maroons won the state championship in its division for basketball in 1967 and football in 1998, 2006 and 2007. In the 2006 season the Maroons finished unbeaten and only allowed 38 points scored against them but their offense scored 513 point in that entire season.

The current holder is Evgeni Malkin, who scored 109 points in the 2011 – 12 season – twelve more than Steven Stamkos, which is the largest differential since the 1998 – 99 season.

In 1998, Kreviazuk scored her only international hit to date with a cover of " Leaving on a Jet Plane ", a song written by John Denver and popularized by Peter, Paul and Mary.

They went on to have subsequent hits in the UK during a reunion period of 1998 – 2002, where they scored a No. 4 single and a No. 25 single.

In the 1998 series one contestant of the Hollands family scored 193 points after finding all five top answers leaving the other member to get only 7 points from his / her five answers.

Australian act The Living End formed in 1994 and scored a hit with the double single " Second Solution "/" Prisoner of Society " in 1998.

It then scored its first outright Group A victories with a Galant VR-4 in the late ' 80s, Mitsubishi homologated the Lancer Evolution, and in the hands of Finland's Tommi Mäkinen, winner of the drivers ' title for four consecutive years ( 1996 – 1999 ), they won the manufacturers ' championship in 1998.

He hit safely and scored a run in the first five games of his post-season career ( 1998 – 99 ), and is joined by Ian Kinsler ( 2010 ) as the only other player to start his post-season career in that manner.

He scored his final goal for Arsenal on 6 January 1998 in a League Cup quarter-final victory against West Ham United at the Boleyn Ground.

He is also the overall Oceania Nations Cup top scorer with 14 goals, scored in three editions: one in 1996, ten in 1998 and three in 2002.

He scored his second century at the end of 1998 against Zimbabwe in a one-off Test match, top-scoring both the innings with 148 and 44 ; despite his performance India went on to lose the game.

Rivaldo returned to the Brazilian national team for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where he scored three goals, including two in the 3 – 2 quarter-final win against Denmark.

In 1998 at Calcutta, he scored 95 against Australia opening the innings with Navjot Sidhu who scored 97.

Laxman scored a duck on his ODI debut against Zimbabwe in the Pepsi Tri-Series in 1998.