3. Elvis Grbac goes from being the hottest QB free agent one winter, to retired the next winter, and not because of injury. Amazing, and yet really kind of pathetic.

2. There was no strike in baseball.

1. Yao Ming is actually good. Really good!

3. Joey Buttafuco vs. China in "Celebrity Boxing"

2. Suzy Whaley accepting invite to GHO after beating the boys from the red tees.

1. Katie Hnida's DOA extra-point in the Las Vegas Bowl.

3. Brenda Warner for calling out Mike Martz on hubby Kurt's broken hand.

2. Mrs. Doug Christie for swinging her purse at Rick Fox during pre-season brawl.

1. Tawney Kitaen for getting cat-scratch fever with Chuck Finley in the car.

3. Najeh Davenport in that closet that night.

2. Tiger's thermo-nuclear 3-iron from a hanging lie in a bunker, uphill, 225 yards to 10 feet at the PGA.

1. How many hot chicks offered to "thank" Irishman Paul McGinley that night after sinking the Ryder Cup clinching point.

3. The Ryder Cup

2. The World Series

1. Lakers-Kings

3. I wish I could stomp on your children's testicles.

2. I usually have sex with female reporters.

1. "I'll f*** you till you love me."

3. Elin Nordegren in the morning

2. Elin Nordegren after a brisk workout

1. Elin Nordegren all gussied up for a night out.

3. From 1st place to lottery in just over a month.

2. Approving the Big Dog for Kukoc and Leon Smith trade.

1. 6th Place at the World Basketball Championships.

3. Latrell Sprewell punching his yacht because an uninvited guest had puked on the carpets.

2. Thomas Jones breaking his hand "answering the phone."

1. Marty Cordova missing a game for the O's by falling asleep in a tanning bed the day before.

3. All of the King's VCR's still can't "un-blow" a ref's whistle.

2. The Redskins and Giants had a 10 minute replay delay. On Wednesday the following week, the NFL sent the Redskins a letter apologizing because despite the momentum sapping delay, the refs still ended with the wrong call.

1. Pass interference and holding remain the most game changing calls in football, and yet they are un-reviewable.

3. Capital Centre (dark, dingy, and with the last remaining projection replay screen in modern sports venues)

2. Riverfront Stadium (could architects have had any less imagination back in the 1970s?)

1. The Vet (hard and dangerous, just like the city)

3. Overhead camera on NFL games

2. Pardon the Interruption

1. "Down Low", the D-League reality show

3. Mohr Sports

2. Season on the Brink

1. Tim Hardaway

3. Jayson Williams' limo driver

2. The old man who was beaten to death with his own cane in a golf-ball hunting dispute with another middle aged man on a Boston area golf course.

1. The Korean soccer fan who lit himself on fire in order to be the national team's "12th man" at the World Cup.

3. More college bowl games

2. Max Kellerman

1. Three year olds in major league dugouts

3. Yao Ming

2. LeBron James

1. Michael Vick