I honestly thought I'd never see a Triple Crown winner.
I was at Belmont Park in 1979 when Spectacular Bid Coast lost. It was simply assumed that the auction would the crown to win three others in 70 Who knew that call it take 37 years for the American Pharaoh had done it? Win three races in five weeks tossed with fresh horses for you. I thought it was impossible.
So here, now, my top 10 other sporting achievements that we can see or have never in our lives.
Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls in 1997. Alexander Hassenstein / Bongarts / Getty Images
The NFL has to reverse its territory lately. First Baltimore running back Ray Rice two games that exposed domestic violence. If the video from the surface blows his girlfriend while both parties have too vague.
Then the Minnesota Vikings, said that despite the impact of child abuse Adrian Peterson, the game was while playing the legal system. When the public outcry was deafening, Peterson was ejected from all team activities.
These decisions of the worst in sports history were?
It's up to you. Well, here's an unscientific list of 10 worst.
10. Jean van de Velde
British Open 1999 came Jean van de Velde to the last hole with three shots. Rather than play it safe, he pulled out his driver. The trouble began. When he holed his triple-bogey seven fell into a three-way playoff, which of course lost. He never won a major golf tournament.
9. Roy bar
In the middle of 1929 All-America Rose Bowl in California he took Roy bar a fumble and ran the wrong way to his own end zone. It was on the 1. When asked about the next game Georgia Tech has represented and won the match 8-7. He will always be known as "Wrong-Way" bar.
8. 10 Cent Beer Night
June 4, 1974 Cleveland had the brilliant idea of staging "of 10 Cent Beer Night." A drunken uproar forced the Indians to leave for Texas.
7. The game Heidi
November 17, 1968, he led the Jets 32-29 in Oakland NBC stopped sending and began to film Heidi.
What nation has not seen, Oakland has scored two touchdowns in the final minute to win the game 43-32.
6. The XFL
Not to take on NBC, but in 2001 the forces joined with the World Wrestling Federation, to produce a new league football. it was a disaster. The league folded after one season.
5. JFK
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on a Friday in 1963, the NFL decided to play full games list two days later. The games are not televised, and Commissioner Pete Rozelle later admitted it might have been his biggest mistake.
4. 1998
The country has been caught in the battle between the homer by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. All turned out to be a scam steroid fuel. Who was to blame? There is no shortage of candidates. The players, the owners, the Commissioner and the fans all want to believe that was true for their own reasons.
3. *
1961 Roger Maris chased Babe Ruth's record of 60 precious circuits in a single season. But the child's season was 154 games. Roger was 162. Commissioner Ford Frick said that if the record is not broken in 154 games, a star should note books in record time. In fact, no rating was never beside the name of Roger Maris.
2. Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is probably the best player in NBA history. If not, it is in the Top 5. But if the NBA rolled around in 1984, he was elected the third. Houston at the center Hakeem Olajuwon with the first pick. not bad. He took two NBA titles. Portland then Sam Bowie took the second option. This is not good. Michael Jordan and then landed in the lap of the Chicago Bulls in the third option.
1. The Bambino
In 1919, the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees. Curse of the Bambino! The Red Sox have gone 86 years without winning the World Series. During this time, the Yankees have won 26.
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I have a big change in the rules, if I have the Commissioner of nowhere. The playoffs would be the winners. It sounds fair? Unless begin the NBA Playoffs check playoff teams. The Milwaukee Bucks 41-41. Well, technically, they are not losers, but they are not good to earn. The Boston Celtics 40-42. Is it what the late Red Auerbach had in mind? Finally, 38-44 Brooklyn Nets.
Are you kidding? There oughta be a law. Of course, it will never happen, because Rule # 1 for the owners to make money at any cost is. Even if you have a lot of losers in their hands.
Consider the 10 biggest losers of the NBA all time. None of them made the playoffs.
# 10 Vancouver Grizzlies in 1999. There was a lock of the year and when they finally played, the Grizzlies managed to eight games in 50 0.160 win percentage win. Yet another 9 teams had worst winning percentages. Since 1999, the Vancouver Grizzlies went for Memphis and made a conclusion of the conference, which explored.
# 9 and # 8 We tie 1994 Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks in 2005. Both played a full 82-game schedule and achieved 13 wins each. The good news for bottom fish in this year, as Minnesota and the Knicks is that these teams have pretty well recovered. Six years later, the Mavericks won the NBA title. And while the Hawks did not do until the end of the conference they publish the best record this season in the Eastern Conference.
# 6 and # 7 Other Links 1987 LA Clippers and New Jersey Nets in 2010. Both clawed their way to 12 wins, a .146 winning percentage. Of course, since then, the Clippers have made a big change. You are now the best team in LA Although the Nets, the Brooklyn moves, are the best team in New York.
# 5 and # 4 Another Link! , 1993 Dallas Mavericks and Denver Nuggets in 1998 both had 11 victories; Winning percentage of .134 pounds Sterling. Therefore, the Mavericks two of the 10 worst records another title won. , Never won an ABA title, he's like the Nuggets, done not win the comfort in a NBA title. Last year the league in 1976, the final they did, where they lost Dr. J. Nets and New York.
# March 1948 Providence Steam Rollers not crush anybody. There were 6 and 42 for a winning percentage of 0.125. They set a record this season. Coach Nat Hickey played in one game, two days before 46 years old. It remains the oldest player in NBA history. After next season Steamrollers resolved.
# February 1973 Philadelphia 76ers. His record 9 and 73 was believed to be unbreakable. The Sixers gathered to reach 4 NBA Finals, all against the Lakers. Just 10 years after his ignominious season captured the NBA title.
No. 1 and worst of the worst? 2012 Charlotte Bobcats. 7-59 another lockout shortened season. A percentage of only 0.106 victories. Just two years later, the Bobcats have made the playoffs, but were swept by LeBron James and Miami in the first round. After this season, the Bobcats were the Hornets renamed.
So in summary lousiness can achieve the following results. NBA championship, franchise movements, changes of name or possible resolution. Hey. That's the way the basketball bounces.
Welcome to the radio show heaven or hell depending on your view. Here are debating endlessly is the greatest basketball player of all time?
He makes Michael Jordan or LeBron James?
Are you kidding?
They dare not enter without mentioning these 9 big this interview. What, can not deal with 11 players in the discussion? Why do you think the Sports Radio is in the air for 24 hours?
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It was a record. 7 Kentucky Wildcats announced that the college for the NBA fell. This is the current state of college basketball.
It is a slogan. "One and Done". Great names of the University took this path. Why go to college for four years, when the wealth of the NBA invite? Some of the famous "One and Dones" are Kevin Durant, who spent a year in Texas and Carmelo Anthony, a year in Syracuse.
But Kentucky was "One and Done" Tool recruiting firm. Hey, let's go to Kentucky. We have the best players and we should remain friends with them for long. To be fair, seven Wildcats who were interested in the NBA draft does not explain freshmen. Some are "Two and Through" and one of them is "Three and See Ya". "Of course, all this has the NBA rule that the players until 19 and one year of high school are doing. Commissioner Adam Silver said it would raise the age of 20. In fact, players left NBA go directly from high school to the NBA. But why? It was fine for a galaxy of stars like Kobe and LeBron.
The truth is that age is just a number. The extraordinary talent.
But what is lost in this discussion makes in college basketball? There is no doubt that the game "is not what it once was", and must be the reason that children do not spend four years in school. I am happy to be the first voice, TV Great Eastern Conference in 1979-1980.
And people like Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Eddie Pinckney every four years at school. And what's more they were the same four years. Think about what has to cook the team cohesion and rivalries.
So like any other gray beard instead yearn for the "good old days", I will offer a guide for "One and Done" generation.
So with a nod to David Letterman, here are 10 reasons why staying in Kentucky would be better to play for the Knicks:
No. 10. In Kentucky, you have a chance to win it all. In the Knicks, all lose a distinct possibility.
No. 9. Knicks paid a lot of money and must be reported as income. In Kentucky, you will not be paid, at least not in the books.
No. 8. In Kentucky, who played a pep band during games. In the Knicks have a number thunder ridge please "make noise" friendly.
No. 7. In Kentucky Actress Ashley Judd is an Superfan and get to kiss her. Madison Square Garden you get close to cuddle with Spike Lee.
No. 6. In Kentucky get to enjoy the victory to 38 times a year. In the Knicks, you can never 38 career wins to taste.
No. 5. In the playoff Kentucky called March Madness, that everyone sees on television. In the Knicks, when it comes to the playoffs, yup, you can also watch TV.
No. 4. In Kentucky they open their season game idiots like Pikeville and the Grand Canyon of easy victories. Time you Pikeville Knicks for the same reason.
No. 3. As a player the last time Kentucky won a title, your parents are shown in the high school play. The last time the Knicks won a championship, the parents were not even born.
In Kentucky # 2 "One and done" refers to his years at school. In the Knicks, and refers to any string of victories.
And (drum roll please) the number one reason to stay in Kentucky is better than playing for the Knicks: to study in the Knicks to his playbook. At the University of Kentucky. Study? What study?
This was the year of Kentucky, until it does not. Instead final college basketball season ended 40-0 38-1. Kentucky unhappy fans rioted in the streets. Imperfection around. How rare perfection in the sport? Let me count the ways.
College Basketball
So now we are still waiting for a team of college basketball to run the table. He has not "passed since Indiana in 1976. The team was not perfect is driven by a man by far.
Bobby Knight and controversy have gone hand in hand. And it did not change the game? Kentucky Wildcats looked perfect with the "one and done" philosophy. Star player for the NBA bolted after his first year. Back in '76 Hoosiers were three seniors and out a bottom. As for the perfect game? Villanova played allegedly beat Georgetown in 1985 often seen as they shot 22-28 on the floor. Not quite perfect.
College Football
Not much is too perfect in college football. Do not play that many games. It was 15 times since 2000. In fact, happened, in 2004, the USC, Auburn and Utah all went undefeated.
Pro Football
Pro football is not the luxury of the University. There are a few scapegoats in the calendar. That's why no one from 1972 Miami Dolphins ran the table. For them it was 14-0. The only team that came near 2007 New England Patriots. But it took a ridiculous from a helmet in the Super Bowl, to make it 18-1.
Bowling
Bowling defined "perfect game." 12 balls, 12 strikes.
As difficult as it is easier to achieve perfect game in any sport. In fact, twenty players have a perfect series played. These are 3,300 consecutive games.
Tennis
I guess if "roll" your opponent can not be more perfect, unless of course, all the points you win. "Double Bagel" are not uncommon. But what tripled? There were at major tennis tournaments were five in history. The last was in 1993 at the French Open than the Spaniard Sergi Bruguera beat Thierry Champion 6-0, 6-0, 6-0.
Golf
Anyone who plays golf knows that there is no such thing as perfection. In the world of professional golf, 59 is the "Holy Grail". It has taken only six times on the PGA Tour and once Anika Sorenstam concubines. It was 58 in Japan. I suppose not leave someday someone Galaxy birdie every hole on a par 72 of 54. But it.
The Perfect 10
Perfection never came before the age of 14 Nadia Comaneci in gymnastics existed in 1976. She put a "perfect 10" in uneven bars, and were held before the Olympics '76, scored 6 10s best. Never happen again. They changed the points system, and now you can get do not sound the highest 17.
Baseball
Of course, it is never the term "perfect game" oscillate most in baseball. No clues, no hits, no errors, no walks, no drummer life, nothing. It has to do only 23 times the only pitcher Don Larsen in the World Series in 1956. The vast majority of perfect games were better come since 1980 best pitching? Hitting the worst? In fact, it would have been 24 perfect games, but the first goal umpire Jim Joyce blew a call in 2010 on her perfect Armando Galarraga Detroit to rob.
In Numbers
Therefore quest for perfection, we have developed the following figures. 14-0, 300, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, 59, 10 and 0-0-0. In sports, like life, it is an imperfect science.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth. MPI / Archive Photos / Getty Images
Yes, it's ironic that the word goat is also modern shorthand for "the greatest of all time." But, one can truly say that football is the greatest of all time in his / her sport?
I can announce with certainty that Babe Ruth is the greatest baseball players of all time, period. His home runs, pitching and personality are unique in the history of baseball.
Here's a trivia question that you probably do not know.
Babe Ruth, in his first start of the World Series, a record that still stands. In Game 2 of the 1916 World Series, 21, Ruth was the starting pitcher for the Red Sox against the Brooklyn Robins. He left the park homer in the first inning and nothing is nothing for 14 innings. Boston won 2-1.
To date, there is acute complete set long in the history of the World Series. Babe Ruth, goat
Case closed.
Why am I doing this? I sent a tweet in safe place on 17 February:
LenBermanSports
Happy Birthday, probably the two best ever their sport .... Jim Brown (79) and Michael Jordan (52). #GOAT?
A simple birthday message that hit a nerve, soon he was tweeted hundreds and hundreds of times again. One who follows these things for the tweet reached more than half a million people. For me that's a record. For the Twitter universe is far from being the "greatest of all time." But obviously he strikes a nerve.
Some people disagree Twitter quickly, and why not?
Names like Joe Montana and Barry Sanders were thrown for football, while Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain were issued for basketball.
But unlike baseball, in my opinion, there is no clear winner or correct answer in other sports, only opinions. And here is mine.
BASKETBALL
A whole generation is likely to be Michael Jordan. Perhaps a future generation LeBron James continues. Bill Russell, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird are definitely in the conversation. But for me, basketball goats Wilt Chamberlain. In addition to the striking statistics, the rules were changed because of him. I can in the event that Chamberlain be underestimated.
SOCCER
Football is probably the most difficult to choose. In this sport, people play these different positions. Do you really compare quarterback with an offensive guard? So I'm going with the best football player I have to go see Jim Brown.
GOLF
This was certainly a hot topic for several years. Tiger Woods was at the peak of his game. But Jack Nicklaus is the defending champion, and until someone actually the 18 majors exceeds any discussion.
HOCKEY
In hockey, the conversation always comes the big three: Gordie Howe, Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Orr. Choose who you want. You can not be wrong.
TENNIS
For men, you can do anything if you, Rafael Nadal, Pete Sampras and Roger Federer Novak Djokovic like. And someone can come and overshadow these great champions. But in my mind, I go with Rod Laver. He is the only player to win the Grand Slam in the modern era. And by the way, who won two Grand Slams.
In the women elected: Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova. Of course, take 'em, but do not forget to Serena Williams, who could be the goat
NASCAR
And to conclude this little exercise, I go with another dunk, NASCAR. No call Richard Petty "The King" for nothing. He won 200 races in his career. Second Place? David Pearson with 105 questions?
