Mar 16, 2000

Garth Brooks grounds out as a pinch-hitter in spring training with the New York Mets. The team ends the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in a 5-5 tie

Mar 17, 2000

Garth Brooks enters in left field during the fifth inning of a spring training game between the New York Mets and Detroit Tigers. Brooks pops out to second and flies out to right in two plate appearances as the Mets lose, 2-1, in Port St. Lucie, Florida

Mar 19, 2000

Garth Brooks, wearing uniform #1, concludes spring training with the New York Mets. He walks on four pitches, as the Mets beat the Florida Marlins, 3-2, but he ends spring training hitless in 17 at-bats

Apr 9, 2000

Marion "Sister" Van Zant dies of cardiac arrest in Florida. Her son, Ronnie Van Zant, co-wrote the Lynyrd Skynyrd hit "Sweet Home Alabama." Two other sons, Donnie and Johnny, form the duo Van Zant, destined to have a country hit in five years

Apr 17, 2000

Pioneering country executive Murray Nash dies in Ocala, Florida, of lung cancer. He played a role in the careers of Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Carlisle and Pee Wee King while working for Mercury Records and Acuff-Rose Music

Jun 29, 2000

Grave robbers descend on the burial site of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant in Jacksonville, Florida, though they are stopped before they get away with his ashes. The singer's remains are relocated to a private site

Jul 1, 2000

Trisha Yearwood sings at the Daytona Motor Speedway in Florida before NASCAR's Pepsi 400, won by Jeff Burton

Aug 16, 2000

A year after accompanying Alabama on a country hit, 'N Sync receives keys to the city of Orlando, Florida

Aug 20, 2000

The Orlando Predators defeat the Nashville Kats, 41-38, at the Arena Bowl in Orlando's TD Waterhouse Centre. Travis Tritt is a minority owner of the Kats

Aug 26, 2000

Jamie O'Neal marries Rodney Good in Seaside, Florida, just weeks after she finished recording her debut album