Best of The Decade

“It was fun to be in the same decade with you.”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt (in a letter to Winston Churchill)

In honor of the first decade of the new millennium, here’s a look back at some of the most memorable moments from each of the last ten years.

2000

January 30, 2000 – Super Bowl XXXIV

As time expires in the 4th quarter, Titans wide-receiver Kevin Dyson is stopped a yard shy of a game-tying touchdown by St. Louis Rams linebacker Mike Jones, securing the Rams’ first Super Bowl in franchise history.

Slumdog Millionaire? The Michael Vick Comeback Story

Every so often an event will occur that makes me stop on a dime and gasp. Literally, it’s why these moments are called breathtaking. Once it happened when I first heard that David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were on the infamous “104” list. Another time it happened when I was innocently watching an episode of Scrubs, and it didn’t dawn on me until the very end that this was actually the series finale. A little part of me died that day.

The earliest memory I have of one of these “gasp” moments was back in 2004 when the Red Sox traded golden-boy Nomar Garciaparra. I can remember exactly whom I was with, where I was, and who told me the news (my friend Chris, his house, and a family friend from New York). As much as Nomar

A Tale of Two Cities

Ok. The title of this post is a little misleading. But one of the things I like about my blog is that it’s well… my blog. I can do whatever I want. Just like you can do whatever you want with your blog.

Come to think of it, another think I like about my blogs (and blogs, in general) is that it can be used to convey any sort of emotion or message, as long as you can write it. Some days I’ll use my blog to express pride and joy in a certain athlete’s accomplishments. Other days I’ll use this space

An Open Invitation

A few weeks ago after the Memorial Tournament, in which Tiger came back from four strokes back heading into the final round, a friend of mine asked me, in all seriousness, “How many strokes back would Tiger need to be before you bet on him losing against the field?”

This was quite the question. I remember a few years back when oddsmakers gave Tiger even odds against the field, meaning that you would win the same amount of money by betting on Tiger as you would if you chose every other golfer out there. Heading into any Sunday, if Tiger were even with

US Open 2009 – No One’s Ark

We should have learned our lesson by now. It has happened, time and time again, yet we still fail to see the error of our ways. The lesson to be learned from Day 1 of the US Open is that when you put enormous pressure and hype on a single event, it will never be fulfilled.

Rewind back to last year. Tiger and Rocco are going head to head. The former is the game’s greatest competitor of our generation. The other is