They also signed Mike Lowell to a new four year contract.

They won a dramatic NLCS in six games over the Houston Astros which they needed to win to avoid facing Mike Scott in Game 7.

A prolific artist, Goldberg produced several cartoon series simultaneously, including Mike and Ike ( They Look Alike ), Boob McNutt, Foolish Questions, Lala Palooza and The Weekly Meeting of the Tuesday Women's Club.

They released Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By, with special guests Mike Patton, Prince Paul, Maseo, Damon Albarn, and Afrikka Bambaata.

They appeared on The Mike Douglas Show and took over hosting duties for a week, during which Ono spoke at length about the evils of racism and sexism.

They waited several years and offered their script, which they updated, to then-show runner Mike Scully, who liked it and had them make a few changes.

They took a 2 – 1 series lead on the defending champion Pittsburgh Penguins and then faltered in three straight ( most observers note a Ron Francis slapshot from the blue line that eluded Mike Richter as the series ' turning point ).

They were in talks with former Phoenix head coach Mike D ' Antoni, but on May 10, 2008 he signed with the New York Knicks.

They also recruited a third guitarist, Mike Giesbrecht, and began to book club shows.

They included three novels featuring " the governor's troubleshooter ", Micah " Mike " McCall, and six featuring private eye Tim Corrigan.

They were later joined by guitarist Gilby Clarke and Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez, jamming and recording most nights.

They recorded the album at Conway Recording Studios and The Record Plant with Mike Clink and Slash co-producing and Steven Thompson and Michael Barbiero mixing, all of whom had worked with Guns N ' Roses on their debut album Appetite for Destruction.

After Nag's Head landlord Mike was imprisoned for embezzlement in the episode " If They Could See Us Now ", Sid took over and kept that role for the remainder of the series.

Mike Read appeared as himself, hosting an episode of " Top Of The Pops ", in " It's Only Rock and Roll " and Jonathan Ross appeared as himself in " If They Could See Us Now ".

They hired independent killers to do the job and waited for Mike Merlo, the leader of the Unione Siciliana, to die because Merlo who was also a man of peace refused to allow O ' Banion to be killed.

They are Senators Jim DeMint ( SC ) and Tom Coburn ( OK ); Senate candidates Sharron Angle ( NV ), Ken Buck ( CO ) ( endorsed after he won the primary ), Mike Lee ( UT ) ( endorsed after he won the primary, though the Club campaigned against Sen. Bennett before the state convention ), Ron Johnson ( WI ), Joe Miller ( AK ) ( endorsed after the Alaska primary ), Rand Paul ( KY ) ( endorsed after the Kentucky primary ), Marco Rubio ( FL ) and Pat Toomey ( PA ); Representative Tom Graves ( GA 9 ) and House candidates Justin Amash ( MI 3 ), Kevin Calvey ( OK 5 ), Jeff Duncan ( SC 3 ), Stephen Fincher ( TN 8 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Tim Griffin ( AR 2 ), David Harmer ( CA 11 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Andy Harris ( MD 1 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Nan Hayworth ( NY 19 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Tim Huelskamp ( KS 1 ), Jesse Kelly ( AZ 8 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Mick Mulvaney ( SC 5 )( endorsed after primary ), Mike Pompeo ( KS 4 ), Kevin Rothfus ( PA 4 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Dave Schweikert ( AZ 5 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Tim Scott ( SC 1 ), Robin Smith ( TN 3 ), and Todd Young ( IN 9 ) ( endorsed after primary ).

They were signed to Factory Records, supposedly after Haçienda DJ Mike Pickering saw them at a Battle of the Bands contest in which they came last ( the winners being Manchester band The Brigade ).

They were assisted by Lasker, who had extensive Washington connections and was aided by Mike Gorman, a journalist and promoter of mental health.

They approached classical trained violinist Miles Golding, reed player Mike Howard and together with Chunn they formed a five-piece acoustic group called Split Ends in October 1972.

They went to the finals again in 1978, with a veteran team spearheaded by the Howes — 50-year-old Gordie led the team in scoring — future NHL stars Gordie Roberts and Mike Rogers, All-Star defenseman Ron Plumb, and forwards John McKenzie, Dave Keon and Mike Antonovich, and possessed of the league's best defense.

They were led by Mike Rogers, Blaine Stoughton, Dave Keon, Mark Howe, Rick Ley, NHL legend Gordie Howe, and the all time WHA leading scorer Andre Lacroix along with the franchise's first starting goaltender Al Smith.

They also made some line-up changes, bringing in Mike Esposito as lead guitarist, and Geoff Daking as drummer.

Mike went over to Phil and stood over him.

While the TV show went into reruns, Mike Judge went on to make movies: he directed such films as Extract, Idiocracy, and Office Space, which found favor with moviegoers and later became cult classics.

Many of his assistant coaches went on to be head coaches, including George Seifert, Mike Holmgren, Mike Shanahan, Ray Rhodes, and Dennis Green.

One of Mike Shanahan's assistants, Karl Dorrell went on to be the head coach at UCLA.

On May 12, Clemens broke a long silence to denounce an heavily-researched expose by four investigative reporters from the New York Daily News, called American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime Clemens went on ESPN's Mike and Mike show to call the book " garbage ", but a review by Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called the book " gripping " and compared it to the work of Bob Woodward.

Under head coach Mike Ditka, who won the 1985 NFL Coach of the Year Award, the Bears went 15-1 in the regular season, becoming the second NFL team to win 15 regular season games, while outscoring their opponents with a staggering margin of 456-198.

Then on second down and 35 to go, Morton threw a pass that went through the hands of running back Dan Reeves and into the arms of linebacker Mike Curtis, who returned the ball 13 yards to the Cowboys 28-yard line.

Yepremian attempted to bat the ball out of bounds, but instead batted it back up into the air, and it went right into the arms of Redskins cornerback Mike Bass, who returned the fumble 49 yards for a touchdown to make the score 14-7 with 2: 07 left in the game.

On the next play, Dallas linebackers Mike Hegman and Thomas " Hollywood " Henderson went after Bradshaw on a blitz.

Pat Smear went on to play with Nirvana in their last year and, after the death of Kurt Cobain, with Mike Watt, and then with the Foo Fighters.

The NME wrote about the phenomenon, " Yes, in a week where news leaked that Saddam Hussein was preparing nuclear weapons, everyday folks were still getting slaughtered in Bosnia and Mike Tyson was making his comeback, tabloids and broadsheets alike went Britpop crazy.

Brandon Boyd enrolled in a university art program in Los Angeles, while guitarist Mike Einziger went to Harvard music school to study composition.

Mike Barnes referred to him as an " iconic counterculture hero ", who with the Magic Band " went on to stake out startling new possibilities for rock music ".

" From the very beginning Tim wanted the Maggot to be a Peter Lorre-esque character, and we had a good time working with that and it went through various design changes ," said co-director Mike Johnson in the book Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding.

Hope is the hometown of two long-serving Arkansas governors: Bill Clinton ( who went on to become the 42nd President of the United States ) and Mike Huckabee ( who tried unsuccessfully to gain the Republican nomination in 2008 ).

Social Distortion went on hiatus after its first album was released, due to Mike Ness's drug problems, and returned with a sound based more on country music, which was referred to as cowpunk.

When Richard Dreyfuss appeared on The Mike Douglas Show with Peter Falk, he described the film as " the most incredible, disturbing, scary, brilliant, dark, sad, depressing movie " and added, " I went crazy.

Mike Flex presided over the rigged " Master Quiz " with ever changing rules and format, although the prize remained the same: a chateau in the Loire Valley, which curiously went un-won from week to week.

* England cricketer Mike Gatting went to Fryent Primary School

* Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt from Green Day went to Pinole Valley High School.

Leaping Mike went on to play baseball from 1914 to 1930.