It is also representative of the evolution and direction of our team .” During the 2003 preseason Michael Vick broke his leg and missed the first twelve games of the season.

Arizona ended the 2003 season with an 84-78 record, in 3rd place in the NL West.

Since re-capitalization in 2003 – 04 season, Roma had a short-lived financial self-sustainability.

* Home field advantage in the World Series granted to the winner of the All Star Game in the same season ( 2003 )

The alternate jersey has been worn twice a season beginning in 2003.

Carson Palmer, the future star quarterback, was drafted in 2003, but did not play a snap that whole season, as Jon Kitna had a comeback year ( voted NFL Comeback Player of the Year ).

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.

In the 2003 – 04 season, Charlton spent much of the campaign challenging for a Champions League place, but a late-season slump in form, combined with the sale of star player Scott Parker to Chelsea, left Charlton in 7th place, which was still the club's highest finish since the 1950s.

The Cowboys became the surprise team of the 2003 season, posting a 10 – 6 record and a playoff berth by having the best overall defense in the NFL.

The 2003 season saw the Red Wings promote associate coach Dave Lewis to the head coach position after Bowman's retirement.

Furthermore, Dominik Hasek decided to come out of retirement and joined the Wings for the 2003 – 04 season.

* EB Start Elbląg-women's handball team playing in Polish Ekstraklasa Women's Handball League: 5th place in 2003 / 2004 season.

Map of Atlantic major hurricanes during post -" Modoki " seasons, including 1987 Atlantic hurricane season | 1987, 1992 Atlantic hurricane season | 1992, 1995 Atlantic hurricane season | 1995, 2003 Atlantic hurricane season | 2003 and 2005 Atlantic hurricane season | 2005.

* Before the 2003 season, seats were added to the Green Monster.

The 2003 season was notable for the firing of manager Jeff Torborg after thirty-eight games.

* Jeff Conine ( 1993 – 1997, 2003 – 2005 ) — Jeff Conine has the distinction of being the only player to appear in the opener of the Marlins ' inaugural season and in both the 1997 World Series and the 2003 World Series won by the Marlins.

However, there have been exceptions, such as the home opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2003 and the Washington Redskins in 2007 that were played at night.

Since moving to Lincoln Financial Field in 2003, the Eagles have worn white at home for at least their home opener.

The Eagles have worn white for their home opener in every game since moving to Lincoln Financial Field in 2003, with the exceptions for the 2010 home opener ( see next paragraph ) and the 2011 home opener against the New York Giants.

Buzzcocks toured as the opener for Pearl Jam in 2003.

In Matsui's first game at Yankee Stadium, the 2003 Yankee home opener, he became the first Yankee to hit a grand slam in his first game at Yankee Stadium.

In week 1 of the 2003 season, the Claymores defeated the Berlin Thunder 62-31-the highest scoring game in NFL Europe history-but in 2004 their home opener was a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the Amsterdam Admirals, tying the record for the league's lowest-scoring game.

Hess had famously recommended Gibbs as captaincy successor to Shaun Pollock in 2003, but now, noting that his " average, as an opener, in that same period is 25. 25, more than 10 runs below his overall average of 35. 87 ", Hess felt " a sense that Gibbs is living off past deeds and not playing with the requisite form needed to hold on to a national spot.

However, he was retained for the home two-Test series against South Africa in 2003 – 04, where he scored 235 runs including a maiden Test century in a 1 – 0 series win, second behind fellow opener Taufeeq Umar.

The new stadium was rededicated during the 2003 home season opener versus the Auburn Tigers on September 2, 2003.

Conine holds the distinction of being the only player to appear in the opener of the Marlins ' inaugural season, the 1997 World Series Marlins ' championship team, and the 2003 World Series Marlins ' championship team.

The current east side bleachers were constructed after the 2002 season and were completed in time for the 2003 season opener.

On May 26, 2003, the RailCats played their inaugural home opener in the new ballpark with a sellout crowd of, with 7, 089 people in attendance ; the first pitch was thrown at 3: 28 pm Eastern Standard Time.

In 2003 he was lost for the year after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the season opener.

In 2003 he was injured with a concussion for the season opener against Wisconsin, but ended up with a 50. 7 completion percentage for 1, 729 yards, 15 touchdowns and nine interceptions, also carrying 101 times for 303 yards ( 2. 3 average ) and four scores.

Huckaby was involved in a collision with shortstop, Derek Jeter in the 2003 season opener against the New York Yankees.

AIX was a component of the 2003 SCO v. IBM lawsuit, in which the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging IBM contributed SCO's intellectual property to the Linux codebase.

Many participants were among those 11 million or more protesters that on the weekend of February 15, 2003, participated in global protests against the imminent Iraq war and were dubbed the " world's second superpower " by an editorial in the New York Times.

The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.

United Nations sanctions against Yugoslavia and Iraq ( 1990 – 2003 ), two of the country's most significant trading partners, took a heavy toll on the Bulgarian economy.

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

He is the only man to have reclaimed the Test record score, having scored 375 against England in 1994, a record that stood until Matthew Hayden's 380 against Zimbabwe in 2003.

Lara was reappointed as captain against the touring Australians in 2003, and struck 110 in his first Test match back in charge, showing a return to stellar performance.

* After Matthew Hayden had eclipsed his Test record for highest individual score 375 by five runs in 2003, he reclaimed the record scoring 400 not out in 2004 against England.

In 2003, Mitchell set up a web site on which he posted most all of the publications of Victor T. Houteff, Ben and Lois Roden, and his own new studies, including a detailed presentation of what he calls The Warfare of Vernon Howell ( a. k. a. David Koresh ) and others against the Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, in which he gives a detailed and documented overview of the controversy regarding the church and its adversaries.

In June later that year, the African Union ( AU ) lifted sanctions against the country, which had been applied after the 2003 coup.

This terror and the crimes carried out during MLC's war against Bozizé's rebels between October 2002 and March 2003 is now being investigated by the International Criminal Court, which says it has identified 600 rape victims and the real numbers are expected to be higher.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

The Patriots wore silver ( which is a light color and treated as a white jersey ) in 2003 and white in the 2011 meeting against Dallas.

Combat operations resumed in the spring of 2003, with MPSRON TWO sortieing to the Persian Gulf for Operation Iraqi Freedom, and bombing operations began again, this time against Iraq.

During the combat operations from the atoll against Afghanistan ( 2001 – 2006 ) and Iraq ( 2003 – 2006 ), a number of allied militaries were based on the island including Australian, Japanese and the Republic of Korea.

*" The Grave ", a song that McLean had written about the Vietnam War, was covered by George Michael in 2003 in protest against the Iraq War.

For example, in a discussion of euthanasia presented in 2003 by the European Association of Palliative Care ( EPAC ) Ethics Task Force, the authors offered: " Medicalized killing of a person without the person's consent, whether nonvoluntary ( where the person in unable to consent ) or involuntary ( against the person's will ) is not euthanasia: it is murder.

Brockovich and Masry filed suit against the Beverly Hills Unified School District in 2003, in which the district was accused of harming the health and safety of its students by allowing a contractor to operate a cluster of oil wells on campus.

* 2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide.

* Miguel Cabrera ( 2003 – 2007 ) — Cabrera debuted with the Marlins in 2003 and hit a game-winning home run in his first game against the Tampa Bay Rays.

* Brad Penny ( 2000 – 2004 ) — In 2003, Penny collected the win in Florida's NLCS clinching victory over the Chicago Cubs and in the World Series against the New York Yankees he went 2 – 0 with a 2. 19 ERA in his two starts.

Nearly all of the public was strongly against America's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and any deployment of troops.