Quote:Ugliest moments of 2002

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1. Terry Bradshaw and Paul McCartney
We're still wretching, almost a year after their "A Hard Day's Night" duet during halftime of the Super Bowl.

2. The Ligues attack in Chicago
Thanks for giving John Ashcroft and Co. another argument for iris scanning and other Big Brother security tactics, the infamous father and son duo attacked Royals first-base coach Tom Gamboa out of nowhere.


3. Rivalry weekend football riots
For one weekend, college football fans looked just a bit like soccer fans in England.


4. Figure skating scandal
Who would have thought that public opinion about figure skating and the American-bashing French could have gone further south? Thanks to a politically-oriented, stupid scoring system and a cheating, whining judge, that's exactly what happened during the Winter Olympics.


5. Nuggets score three points in first quarter
On Nov. 27, Denver managed just three first-quarter points in a 99-68 loss to the Spurs. They shot 1-for-16 from the floor, and also set a franchise low with only 22 first-half points. "I've never seen anything like it before, it wasn't pretty," said the Spurs' David Robinson. Amazingly enough, this wasn't the Nuggets' worst offensive performance of the young season. On Nov. 16, against Detroit, they managed to score only 53 points. And in mid-December, they again scored only 22 in the first half, this time against Philly.

6. Tonya Harding vs. Paula Jones
Ugh. Remember the "Cheers" episode when someone bought Sam's Red Sox jersey in a fundraising auction, just so he wouldn't have to keep hearing about it on the air? Can we do something like that with these two? They just keep coming back. And somehow, just when you thought they couldn't possibly do any more damage to their reputations ...


7. DJ's stupid, offensive stunt
Beau Duran, a "morning radio personality" at Phoenix radio station KUPD-FM, called Darryl Kile's wife before a playoff game in Phoenix and asked her if she had a date, adding that he thought she was "hot." The tasteless prank call led to Duran's firing -- but the station didn't fire him until advertisers left the station in droves.


8. Shawn Estes vs. Roger Clemens
The anticipation was high for a knockdown pitch with Clemens at the plate against a Mets pitcher for the first time since the Mike Piazza bat-throwing incident two years prior in the World Series. And what does Estes do? Throws so far behind Clemens that the Rocket smirks back in return. We're not sure what Estes should have done, but we're sure it wasn't that.


9. Dennis Franchione's departure
It's not that Franchione left Alabama for the head coaching position at Texas A&M. It's how he left -- not only walking out on players he recruited, but delegating notice of his own departure to an assistant and the media.


10. Jose Canseco tells all
His comments during Steroids Week and his threat to write a tell-all showed the ugly side of this erratic superstar, who was given plenty of second chances in baseball.

Quote:8. Shawn Estes vs. Roger Clemens
The anticipation was high for a knockdown pitch with Clemens at the plate against a Mets pitcher for the first time since the Mike Piazza bat-throwing incident two years prior in the World Series. And what does Estes do? Throws so far behind Clemens that the Rocket smirks back in return. We're not sure what Estes should have done, but we're sure it wasn't that.

Quote:wasted evening without Arpi

Quote:7. DJ's stupid, offensive stunt
Beau Duran, a "morning radio personality" at Phoenix radio station KUPD-FM, called Darryl Kile's wife before a playoff game in Phoenix and asked her if she had a date, adding that he thought she was "hot." The tasteless prank call led to Duran's firing -- but the station didn't fire him until advertisers left the station in droves.

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Quote:8. Shawn Estes vs. Roger Clemens
The anticipation was high for a knockdown pitch with Clemens at the plate against a Mets pitcher for the first time since the Mike Piazza bat-throwing incident two years prior in the World Series. And what does Estes do? Throws so far behind Clemens that the Rocket smirks back in return. We're not sure what Estes should have done, but we're sure it wasn't that.

that was one of my favorite things, ever. Me and my friend were watching the game and just started cracking up. god, the mets suck.

Quote:hence the voting. sorry alkie

Quote:I think he didn't want to hit him. He wanted to send a message saying "I could hit you if i want to, but i am not going to do it since i would get thrown out". Estes threw it to just scare him. Clemens is a dick anyway.

Quote:Estes was not trying to hit him. He just wanted to send a message saying that this is over.

Quote:Especially the Mets won the game and he hit a homerun off Clemens.

Quote:1. Arpi's and Keyser's bet which resulted in a wasted evening without Arpi.

Quote:I am a firm believer that filling the airspace with noise does not necessarily make for a good evening...unless, of course, I had just had chili.