GarySJ

Ding ding ding! That's it. Unquestionably the most gigantic sports moment of recent years. You've got it all; a likeable team of plucky underdogs, an unbeatable Goliath-like favorite, high stakes in the form of Cold War political intrigue, and the call from Al Michaels that echoes through the ages.

No, no, no, no, no, and no. Though those are all good and should make the list (post 9-11 baseball already has). Trust me, when you figure out what my #1 is you'll go "ohhhhhh." What I have in mind is without a doubt the greatest sporting moment in recent memory. By far.

The criteria is "memorable moments". So I think Ripken breaking the streak would qualify, as well as the Earnhardt death and the Armstrong wins. Reggie's 3 HRs in the World Series and the Fisk homer are more than 25 years old (barely), so they won't make it. No one's mentioned #1 yet. Surprising, since we've been reminded of it in recent weeks.

Don't forget the snowplow game vs. the Dolphins in 1982 I think it was, where that convict cleared a place to kick the field goal. That should be in the list.

ESPN is counting the Top 100 sports moments of the last 25 years. They're up to about #90. Who can predict what some of them will be? In no particular order, here are some of mine: - McGwire hitting #62 - End of Duke-Kentucky regional final game - End of Bills-Giants Super Bowl (Norwood missed FG) - The own-goal in USA-Colombia World Cup soccer match where the Colombia player was murdered a few days later - End of Women's World Cup won by USA - End of Rams-Titans Super Bowl (tackle just short of goal line) - 1981 NCAA basketball final, which they decided to play the day Reagan was shot And I'll go with Magic Johnson declaring he has HIV as #2. As for the #1 sports moment of the last 25 years... well I think it's so obvious it doesn't even need to be mentioned. Any others?

I got to see the parade and SPT Forum party on Sunshine, and I must say it was pretty cool to watch. I'm not a rabid Lightning fan, but having been to several games at the Expo Hall I was glad to see them win it. Here's hoping the Bulls will have a citywide party like that someday.

And what's wrong with that?

What's really impressive is that he's doing it with Stella Artois -- he's brave enough to risk spilling the fancy beer.

It is true that USF was contacted by the ACC. They have a dyslexic secretary, and she was trying to call FSU.

Thank you, June Cleaver. Wonder how they're going to enforce this?

I've seen this on TV. It's cool but it's like $500. As for the issue of the USF decoration, they'll produce it as soon as enough Bulls fans plunk down five bills to purchase one of these things.

Isn't the new UConn stadium a goodly distance from campus? Wouldn't that make weeknight games harder to get to for the students?

Congrats on the impending nuptials and the birthday! But I've got to ask the important question... this isn't going to affect your availability for USF football is it? The tailgate wouldn't be the same without you.

When I was planning to transfer, I requested information from several schools. The University of Cincinnati sent me a huge, expensive-looking folder about their MUSIC program, which wasn't even close to the department I requested information about. So yeah, it doesn't surprise me to hear that their admissions department is a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

Why stop at death? I have this image of the 3004 PSU-FSU game being coached by two Futurama-style heads in a jar. By then Joe Paterno will only be 4,500 victories behind Bobby Bowden.

If you define toughness as playing with pain, then surely Reggie Kohn and Chonsey Asbury should get high marks.

He's got a point -- our football players have been showing up on the police blotter a bit much of late.

I can top Mons Venus -- I'm going to Las Vegas in two weeks.

Wow! I thank you all for the kind greetings. Remind me to buy a round or two at Five Points in appreciation. I'm driving up for that game with one of my coworkers, who also happens to be a regular poster at Digital Roost.

Supposedly, Joe Paterno's son Jay will succeed him. So it is pretty safe to say that "Paterno" will be there.

From http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/7330350

This is a good idea. Let's take a game that wouldn't draw flies at the Sun Dome and play it at a branch campus, to get the satellite campuses and communities involved in athletics. It might result in more USF Lakeland students making the occasional trek down I-4 for a home football or basketball game. Note also that Lakeland is going to become a TEN THOUSAND student campus. USF Lakeland will have a larger enrollment than five Big East schools. We would be foolish not to try and get them involved in athletics. In fact, I think at least one game there every year would be a good idea.

BasketBull, we only had 6 guys last year. 12 will seem like a luxury. In spite of everything that went wrong last season, the team improved down the stretch. And we return four key players in Leather, Mosley, Swift and Bryant. That's a decent senior nucleus for a young team. If there is an upside to all the defections, it's that RMc will very quickly have a roster comprised of his own players. The first Big East season will see only one Greenberg recruit on the Bulls roster (Diarra). RMc's second team at WMU made the NIT after a similarly disastrous first season; let's just wait and see how it goes.

Wasn't it supposed to be renamed the "Pepsi Sun Dome" or some such thing, over that Coke/Pepsi campus vending contract bid awhile back? How can the Sun Dome be un-renamable if that was being seriously talked about? But yeah, it will be interesting to see what Woolard can do with the Sun Dome. It's easy to say it's a priority at your introductory press conference; it's a little harder to actually do when we've had to raise so much money already to pay for all these other incidentals.

NCAA figures list the AVERAGE revenue for a I-A school as $40 million. That was for 2001, and that average includes the low-rent Sun Belt type schools. So even if you give them a $2M gross increase per school, and say they're each making $50M now, that's a four percent increase. Four percent. Was it really worth all the acrimony? Hell, I bet expansion-related legal fees ate up a big chunk of the first-year profits. Then these schools stand up in the summer NCAA meetings and it's say it's wrong for school to make money by selling media guides. What a pack of hypocrites. And I'm not ungrateful that this series of events put USF into the Big East. Just analyzing ACC expansion on its own merits.