The Bad Boy’s Top 10 list of the biggest national sports stories of 2011, complete with Honorable Mentions:
HM: Manny Ramirez retires rather than sit out 100 game PED suspension…
HM: Green Bay Packers go back to the Super Bowl title under Aaron Rodgers…
HM: Butler goes to back-to-back NCAA Basketball National Championship games…
HM: St. Louis Cardinals come from 10 games back to win Wild Card & World Series, then loses Albert Pujols to Free-Agency & Manager Tony LaRussa to retirement…
HM: Tony Stewart breaks Jimmie Johnson’s 5-year stranglehold on the Sprint Cup, becomes only 2nd ever Owner/Driver NASCAR Champion & fires Crew Chief…
HM: AAU President Bobby Dodd child-abuse sex scandal that is still developing…
HM: BCS Championship Ticket “Reservation” Scam endorsed by the NCAA…
#10: Rookie Trevor Bayne wins Wood Bros. the Daytona 500, then disappears…
#9: Barry Bonds goes on trial for steroids, admits use, but acquitted(?)…
#8: IndyCar Champion Dan Wheldon killed on the track in season’s final race…
#7: NFL & NBA Locks out its players, but appears to have settled differences…
#6: Tiger Woods dumps Stevie Williams, misses 2 Majors, but finally wins again…
#5: Ohio State fires Jim Tressell, whose lies will ultimately put Buckeyes on major probation & hires Urban Meyer, who recovered from life-threatening illness & watched all of his children grown up all in one year…
#4: Collegiate Conference Realignment: Complete shake-up with Pitt & Syracuse headed for ACC / Texas A&M & Mizzou to SEC / TCU to Big 12 & the Big East will soon be renamed the “Big Pile of Garbage”?…
#3: Miami & Nevin Shapiro scandal that should bury the program for years…
#2: Bernie Fine & Syracuse child-abuse scandal that could bury Jim Boeheim…
#1: Jerry Sandusky & Penn St child-abuse scandal that did bury Joe Paterno…
