Most memorable moment of 2000?

[Marc]

What do you think is the most memorable moment in the sports world in 2000?

[iFroggy]

For me... now this is just me, not too many others. :)

In Game One of this years World Series, there was a hit to the OF, Timo Perez turned third, Derek Jeter made this awesome off balance cutoff throw to the plate, right on target and nailed Timo. That was an amazing play, at least from my point of view.

Another of my most memorable moment was Tiger Woods' US Open win at Pebble Beach.

[Marc]

Any others? I'm sure more of you have favorite moments in the sports world in 2000? If you don't hurry, it'll be 2001!

[Robyn]

Hmmm...can't think of anything really exciting that happened in 2000 to be honest! Of course, I'm only a basketball fan, so that kind of limits it! Maybe the Lakers championship riots? TNo-the Pacers winning the Eastern Conference championship when everyone said it was going to be Lakers/Knicks.

[lmanchur.]

...I did write a big long reply about this when you first started this thread, Marc, but then I got an error, IE shut down on me, and I lost what I had written... however, that was a while ago and I'll do it all again now...

Nothing compares with the intensity of the Olympic Games, so that has got to be the best sports moment of 2000... there are just too many of them from that one, two week event alone!... Marion Jones if you're American... Simon Whitfeild (sp?) if you're Canadian... the Chinese swim team... it was just an awesome event.

For hockey, the most memorable moment in 2000 is Mario Lemieux coming back... that's pretty sad when you have to wait 11 months and 27 days for the most memorable moment of your sport...... well, actually, the Stanley Cup Finals this year were very exciting. The 2nd last game went into triple overtime, and the last game went into double overtime.

In the NFL, it was definitely the Super Bowl that came down to one short, yet somehow long, yard. If the Titans would've scored, it would've been the first Super Bowl EVER to go into overtime, but nevertheless, the game and seasonw ere still full of dramatics.

I think in the NBA, it was the final breakthrough of Shaq, showing the basketball world that he was a true leader, star player, and now, finally champion. Of course, Vince Carter broke through the darkness and is now coming through as a superstar player... I think his dunks at the All-Star Weekend and the commercials that include those dunks will help promote the NBA after a lot of negative media in 1999.

I don't follow tennis that much, but I did watch a match or two to see what the Williams' sisters were all about, and I may watch a few more matches in 2001 -- they are really doing a great job for their sport, like Tiger is for golf.

For baseball, it was Alex Rodriguez simply changing the economics of not only baseball, but professional sports in general. Why, just a few days after that, Manny Rameriz signed a huge, bloated deal with the Red Sox -- where will it end!? On the field, though, performances were not short of spectacular. Carlos Delgado chased the Triple Crown for most of the season, but came up just short at the end. There was the first "subway series" for the first time in a long time, and although everyone despises the Yankees for simply being so good, they are the team of the decade and of the century, and probably will be for the next ones as well.

But for the moment of 2000, need I say more about golf than three words?: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods. Three of the four majors he won, and set numerous records doing it, including the largest margin of victory in a major, the lowest ever score in relation to par, and he was also the only player in the US Open to finish below par, at an amazing -15. He became the first player ever to win $10,000,000 in a season, and, like A-Rod for baseball, Woods is changing the economics of golf. Not only is he raising the purses at golf championships, but he is raising sponsorship deals, with a $100-million deal with Nike earlier in the year.

(my first post wasn't this long... let's hope this one actually posts!)

[TDR]

For me you have to go to the World Series,Game 1, in The Bronx. Even though this may seem small I think it Symbolizes what baseball is all about. Basically what iFroggy said. Todd Zeile hammered a ball off the VERY VERY Top of the wall and was thought to be a home run at first glance. But as it hit the top of the wall Zeile was only around first and Timo was just jogging around second to third. When all of the sudden David Justice chucks the ball back into the infield and Jeter fires it to the plate for the out and the inning. Even thoguh it may be the same as Patricks I wanted to say how I saw the seen.

[iFroggy]

Say it how you want, that was awesome! :)

[Boomer]

I will always remember Bernie Williams down on one knee in centre field after making the final out of the 2000 world series claiming the Yankees three-peat. Also, I'll remember Mr Torre (as Jeter would call him) finding his family and crying just after the game.

Also the off balance throw to the plate by Jeter in game one of the world series was wonderful he was running hard at foul territory and threw the ball around Perez to the plate that whole game was incredible and well worth staying up until 6 am here in the UK for.

There also was a guy who made a catch in the crowd in right centre field with his beer cup I don't remember where or what teams but it was really funny.

This is the last thing. I think it was Agbyani who made a catch in left and handed the ball to a kid in the crowd thinking the Mets had three outs when they only had two and then proceeded to wrestle the ball away from the confused child.

[Wedge231]

I'll always remember this year as the year when the Mets and the Yankees played each other in the World Series. Too bad those Yankees won. Well, what else is new?