After posting the worst record in baseball for the 1999 season, the Marlins had the first overall pick in the 2000 first-year player draft and selected first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, a 16-year-old native of Bonita, California.

That season emerging international talents such as Adrian Mutu, Mauro Camoranesi, Alberto Gilardino, Martin Laursen, Massimo Oddo, Marco Cassetti and coach Alberto Malesani failed to capitalize on an excellent start and eventually dropped into fourth-to-last place for the first time all season on the very last matchday, enforcing relegation into Serie B.

Minnesota began the 2006 season 4 – 2 ( Childress became the first coach in Vikings history to start 2 – 0 in his first year ), but would finish the year at 6 – 10, receiving the 7th pick in the NFL Draft ; with it, the Vikings selected Adrian Peterson out of the University of Oklahoma.

During the off season, the Bulls signed forward Joe Smith and guard Adrian Griffin, and drafted center Joakim Noah.

Prior to the 1986 – 87 season, the Pistons acquired more key players: John Salley ( drafted 11th overall ), Dennis Rodman ( drafted 27th ) and Adrian Dantley ( acquired in a trade with the Utah Jazz ).

Midfielders Sergio Silvagni and Adrian Gallagher, half-forward Robert Walls, and ruckman Percy Jones were also prominent throughout the Barassi era, and in 1970, Alex Jesaulenko became the first ( and to date, only ) Carlton forward to kick 100 goals in a season.

However, they finished the season winning eight of the their last eleven games and were considered by some a potential contender for the 2005 Arena Bowl championship led by 2004 Rookie of the Year, quarterback Adrian McPherson.

Highly touted free agent pick up Adrian McPherson failed to live up to high expectations and was cut midway through the season, while the defense was among the league's worst, ranking 18th and 17th in defensive passing and receiving respectively.

Only thirteen squad members were retained from the previous season, this was reduced to eleven when Adrian Forbes and Nick Hegarty were released.

As of the 2011 Men's and Women's Lacrosse season, Albion is one of only three NCAA sanctioned Lacrosse programs in the state of Michigan with Adrian College, and The University of Detroit-Mercy.

He scored only 11 goals in 27 games in 2002-03, though in the next season he scored 17 goals in all competitions which, despite the arrival of new strikers Adrian Mutu and Hernán Crespo, made him top scorer at the club for the third time in four years.

The supporting cast includes Adrian Zmed as rookie Officer Vince Romano, Heather Locklear as rookie Officer Stacy Sheridan ( season 2 onwards ), and Richard Herd as Captain Dennis Sheridan as personnel in the fictional " LCPD " Police Department Academy Precinct.

Hammerhead did do as what Kingpin told him to-by selling it to Adrian Toomes for the villain to put his plans into action by the two-part second season finale.

For the 2007 season Warrington signed current Great Britain international Adrian Morley on a four year deal from the Sydney Roosters NRL club, Paul Johnson, another Great Britain international, from Bradford Northern on a three year deal and New Zealand international back rower or centre Vinnie Anderson, 27, on a three year deal from St Helens paying a £ 50k transfer fee.

Todd Gilchrist of IGN named the episode as one of his favorites of the ninth season in his review of the DVD boxset, and Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, called it " a good fun episode.

Aside from exclusive season two star Adrian Paul ( of Highlander fame ), the second season also featured the first onscreen appearance of ( a then very young ) Mia Kirshner.

Players to leave Quins at the end of the 2007 – 08 season were Adrian Jarvis, Hal Luscombe, Chris Hala ' ufia, Paul Volley, Nicholas Spanghero, Simon Keogh, Ricky Nebbett and Ryan Manyika.

This was also the beginning of the end of Williams ' 1990s dominance, as it was announced that Hill and designer Adrian Newey would depart at the conclusion of the season, with engine manufacturer Renault also leaving after 1997.

An All-Star for the fourth consecutive season, Malone ( 27. 8 ppg ) also finished runner-up to Adrian Dantley ( 30. 7 ) for the league's scoring title.

On November 18, Adrian was awarded the team's most valuable player of the 2010 season, taking the honour from captain Dwayne De Rosario who won the award in the 2009 season.

However in the regular season against the Arizona Cardinals, Leftwich suffered a broken ankle after being sacked by Cardinals ' safety Adrian Wilson on the first play of the game.

In Week 9 of the 2007 season, Peterson broke the NFL record set by Jamal Lewis in 2003 for most rushing yards in one game by rushing for 296 yards against the San Diego Chargers.

After the end of the 2007 season, Richmond elected to delist Patrick Bowden, Brent Hartigan, Andrew Krakouer and Carl Peterson.

* Gervase Peterson ( born 1969 ), contestant on Survivor: Borneo, the first season of the program.

Gould also guest starred in the show's third episode in its first season as Arnie Peterson, Rose's first serious boyfriend after her husband Charlie's death.

After a poor 1975 season, Peterson moved back to March and scored his final victory for the team at the 1976 Italian Grand Prix.

* Barton MacLane as Maj. Gen. Martin Peterson ( first to fourth season )

* Executive producer Brian Peterson confirmed that Gleek would appear " in one shape or another " in Smallville's eighth episode of season nine, " Idol.

In December 2005, Peterson joined with several other Congressmen to form the Second Amendments, a bipartisan rock and country band set to play for United States troops stationed overseas over the Holiday season.

In the fourth season, Kenny Blank, who played Michael Peterson, left the series ; his character was explained to be off to college.

Writer / executive producer Brian Peterson laments that the creative team wanted to remind the audience that Lionel was still the same Lionel Luthor they had come know, so they intentionally held off on revealing Lionel's usual antics until season six's " Promise ", where Lionel blackmails Lana into marrying Lex.

Ronnie Peterson ended his first year with Lotus by taking his fourth win of the season, as a thrilling two-man battle ended with Peterson beating James Hunt to the flag by the smallest winning margin in USGP history at that time.

Jean-Pierre Jarier, who had fallen out of favour with ATS earlier in the season and been dropped in favour of drivers such as Alberto Colombo, Hans Binder and Harald Ertl, had last been semi-competitive with Shadow back in 1975 and had been drafted in by Lotus to replace Ronnie Peterson after his tragic death at Monza two races previous, took pole by just 0. 011 seconds from Scheckter.

The season will also be remembered for the death of Ronnie Peterson, who would finish second in the Championship standings despite a fatal first lap accident at Monza during the Italian Grand Prix.

Fittipaldi, Ronnie Peterson and Carlos Reutemann each won three races, Jody Scheckter and Niki Lauda two each, Regazzoni and Denny Hulme, who retired at the end of the season, one each.

Peterson signed with the Seattle Seahawks before the 2006 season.

In his third season with the team, Peterson made 86 tackles and five sacks, and was selected to his third consecutive Pro Bowl.

For the remainder of the season, Williams ran an inspired defense which performed, along with the rest of the team, to honor Taylor's memory, highlighted by holding star running back Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings to 27 yards on December 23, 2007, and allowing a franchise-low one yard rushing to the Dallas Cowboys on December 30, 2007, sealing a playoff seed.

Following the 2005 season, Carl Peterson ( president of the Kansas City Chiefs ) hinted to the press about interest in hiring Edwards that could have been considered tampering.

43 year old Chiefs owner Clark Hunt set the tone for the 2008 season by expressing his support for Herm Edwards and GM Carl Peterson and their plan to rebuild the team.

Peterson posted career highs in points and rebounds averaging 16. 8 points and 4. 6 rebounds and threw in 2. 3 assists per game through 82 games played in the 2005 – 06 season.

According to his twitter. com account, Peterson has decided to switch back to wearing # 24 for the 09-10 season with the Hornets.

Originally signed as a midseason replacement to the injured Todd Peterson, Reed quickly contributed to the team, finishing the season with 100 points, which led to the team releasing Peterson in the offseason and making Reed their primary kicker.