OT: Best Non-UM Sporting Moment of 2010

Submitted by Roberto Mancini on

Since 2010 will come to a close in a day, I wanted to find out what your favorite moment in sports was, UM sporting events aside.

 

Mine: Siphiwe Tshabalala's wonder goal to start the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

What about yours?

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um4life

December 30th, 2010 at 8:25 PM ^

I agree.  That game was amazing.  I was always a NON soccer fan, but this world cup turned me into a believer.  The video that was later put together showing everyone going crazy in different places (bar's, living rooms, the streets, etc) was so great. 

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teamort2

December 30th, 2010 at 8:36 PM ^

Been a Cots fan for life and I must admit it is much more enjoyable watching Colts games that mean something at the end of the season.  If we don't make the playoffs so be it.  I hated the fact they didnt play the last 3 games every year just not to hurt someone or to rest so and so blah blah blah.   PLAY THE GAME

Go Colts and GO BLUE

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jshclhn

December 30th, 2010 at 9:05 PM ^

Still can't believe Suh was fined for that one.  If you start acting like a running back, I'm going to start treating you like one.  If you don't slide as a QB and you get hurt passed the line of scrimmage, it's your own fault.

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Chippewa Blue

December 30th, 2010 at 8:34 PM ^

There's a lot of stuff that I didn't attend that tops it but I'll go with something I was actually at. Central game aganist Western this year was pure awesome. The build up all week, getting off from my last friday class because of the game, the atmosphere of the game, the sprinkling of snow, then vindicating the crummy season (partially) with a final minute win over our biggest rival, had to be the best game I attended all year.

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formerlyanonymous

December 30th, 2010 at 8:51 PM ^

I really should delete this, but damn the rest of the threads right now.

I'm agreeing with SJUBlue. Donovan's goal was "a moment," as Dynamo Theory (Houston Dynamo on SBNation) so very well described it in a post earlier this week. Nothing has felt as special to me this season. No Denard clip, no NFL (especially as a Texans fan), and no NCAA tourney play held a candle to the call of the goal. Even the perfect (and near perfect) games, the no-hitters - they were close, but they weren't moments that gripe you as a fan.

A taste of Dynamo Theory's post:

A "moment" has several definitions but for our purposes, we'll go with this one: a time of excellence or conspicuousness.

Sports are defined by moments, single plays that often take only a matter of seconds to occur that live forever in the mind's eye of those who witnessed them and are passed along to new fans as talasmanic stories that help define a sport to new fans.

June 23rd, 2010 gave us a moment.

No matter how you felt about Landon Donovan before the 91st minute of the USA's World Cup match against Algeria, that single moment when the ball deflected off the goalkeeper to a charging Donovan forever changed how you felt about him.

For all the things that Donovan has accomplished so far, that moment will forever be linked with him and forever have a place in the minds and hearts of American soccer fans. It's been just over six months and I still get chills and goosebumps when I watch the replay of that goal. That is the definition of a moment. In that split second new fans were created, casual fans were hooked for life and long time fans were reminded why the love the beautiful game. 

More importantly, that moment couldn't be planned out or expected, it just happened that way.

I was just a loose fan of soccer and the USMNT over the last 2 world cups. This time, I was hooked.

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jg2112

December 30th, 2010 at 8:59 PM ^

I agree that it was a great moment when it happened. However, losing to Ghana three days later took the sting out of the moment.

It's no different to winning the AL Central on the last day of the season and then getting swept out of the playoffs within 4 days (I live in Minnesota - this happens almost yearly for the local team).

It's not the biggest moment in US Soccer history - that remains with Paul Caliguiri in 1989, starting the U.S.'s modern era as a soccer nation.

But the two biggest moments of the World Cup, for my money, were Gyan's penalty kick miss versus Uruguay, and then Andres Iniesta's goal versus Holland in the final.

As far as goals go, Iniesta >> Donovan by a longshot.

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16FORLIFE

December 30th, 2010 at 8:58 PM ^

I was @ a bar in East Lansing with my cousins during that game and there was one kid dressed in black and gold (yellow?) just going crazy. Needless to say, he became my new best-friend that day.

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16FORLIFE

December 30th, 2010 at 8:55 PM ^

I have so many.... Donovan's goal in the Algeria game is a start. Another would be Detroit@Tampa (NFL) on my birthday. I almost had a heart attack but it was fun.

The re-emmergence of Michael Vick isn't a moment in time but is something in sports.

Boise State- Nevada is one I won't forget for a long time. Little bit of a shock in the sports world.

Obviously the almost perfect game.

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um4life

December 30th, 2010 at 9:03 PM ^

Good call on Vick.  While I think what he did a few years back is AWFUL, I am glad to see him get his life turn around; and even more glad to see him putting it all together on the field.  I have become a band-wagon Eagles fan this year, and cant wait to see them in the playoffs.

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MWW6T7

December 30th, 2010 at 8:58 PM ^

When Kentucky did not win the National Title with 5, count em 1..2..3..4..5.., first round draft picks.  I live in Louisville and damn I was so glad when they got put out.

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