LeBron James is the only one who seems to know you only get one free throw if you’re fouled on a made shot.
Because they are clearly awesome people.
I always get a good laugh at this goal on Vesa Toskala.
Not that Carey Price’s"Bill Bucknered’ goal was much better. (Habs went on to win that game 2-1).
The difference is that Price is actually a good goalie. Toskala…not so much! 
Good one. Bonus point for the fact it dogged him practically throughout his entire pro career too.
Wasn’t really Zonk’s fault (or Joe Pisarcik’s), as the offensive coordinator Bob Gibson (not the HoF pitcher) insisted on the handoff and not a kneel-down. Neither Zonk or Joe wanted anything to do with the play, but halfheartedly went ahead with it anyway, and Murphy’s Law took over from there.
http://network.yardbarker.com/soccer/article_external/japan_defender_nets_a_58m_header/7801762?linksrc=mb_main_col_8
This one is fun.
I never knew about that interesting piece of history. Thanks for posting it.
Yeah, if it were any other player that would totally have been a career defining Charlie Brown moment.
Oh, and how could I have forgotten this one?
Relevant info for NFL fans who don’t know the CFL: The Grey Cup is Canada’s Superbowl. Both teams field 12 players a side instead of 11 in a regular lineup. Saskatchewan Roughrider fans call themselves “The Thirteenth Man” for their undying love and support of their team. The game took place out West, in Calgary, making the crowd basically a Roughriders home crowd.
Now, on with the show…
Well, there are balls, and there are balls. That was a good foot low and outside, nearly in the dirt. The odds of making contact are miniscule–I can understand why a batter would decide not to add a strike to the effectively already failed squeeze play.
On the other hand, if a pitch that bad means the suicide squeeze is going to fail, I don’t know why you’d ever call a suicide squeeze against a Rangers pitcher. (sting)
The absolutely worst one I’ve ever seen was a few years back at the Round Rock Express (Minor Leagues) , near Austin.
A simple pop fly, almost directly to the pitcher. He was directly under it, just waiting for it to fall into his glove… when he got slammed from behind by not just one, but *two *outfielders. All three fell down, and the ball bounced off of the pileup. The batter made it to first.
Sticking with baseball, and a major-league team at that, the Royals have had a series of comically bad plays over the last decade.
I think my favorite was Kerry Robinson climbing the wall to steal a home run only for the ball to bounce on the warning track in front of him for a ground-rule double.
They also had a good one where two outfielders starting jogging off and the end of an inning (well, it would have been) only to have the ball drop behind and between them both.
Chris Childs, Toronto Raptors, 2002.
With the Raptors down by 3 and just seconds left in the last game of the first round of the playoffs, Childs, the point guard, was carrying the ball on Toronto’s last chance. His teammates fanned out, trying to get room to take a three-point shot to save the season.
Halfway down the court, Childs suddenly just heaved the ball up towards the rafters. It bounced away, and the game ended, while his teammates stared at him in amazement. The annoucers were completely silent. It was as if Childs was throwing the game.
Afterwards, asked why he’d suddenly given up, Childs admitted that he thought the Raptors were losing by 4, not 3. He didn’t know they had a chance to tie it.
1970 or thereabouts, Cleveland Indians vs. Oakland A’s in an otherwise forgettable baseball game. The play I remember: an Oakland batter pops the ball up, and it’s caught for an out. What makes it noteworthy is who caught the ball – Bobby Hofman, who was coaching third base for the A’s. What a time for the old utility infielder to flash back to his playing days…
I remember back in the 70’s Baylor was driving on TCU and down 34 - 28 had reached the 4 yard line with 22 seconds left. Out of time outs and with no receiver immediately open, Quarterback Neal Jeffries intentionally threw the ball out of bounds to stop the clock.
But it wasn’t 3rd down like he thought. It was 4th.
Last year there was an LSU-Tennessee football game where LSU needed a touchdown on the last play of the game to win. They were very close to the goal line, but the center snapped the ball over the quarterback’s head, resulting in lost yardage and the end of the game. However, Tennessee had not just 12 but 13 players on the field (it may even have been 14). The game can’t end on a penalty by the defense, so LSU got one more play and scored the touchdown.
Steve Smith may have kept the Oilers from winning five straight Stanley Cups. (at 1:12 of the video)
DeSean Jackson, as previously mentioned.
The Bruins have too many men on the ice.
How about conceding an infield triple? (Actually, it was scored as a single with the runner going to third on fielder’s indifference.)
And of course, Jim Joyce and Armando Galarraga.
Holy crap. Oakland’s manager should have stopped play and made the team run laps after that.
Here’s a pretty amusing recount of a Clippers loss to the Cavaliers a couple seasons back, after they blew a 19 point lead with just under 11 minutes to go. The Clippers were down by 2 with 6 seconds to play and had possession:
More the end of a play, but in the late 80s a baseball player slid into second, then stood up and, completely forgetting where he was, dropped trou to get the dirt out of his pants.
I was at the 1984 Mavericks-Lakers conference final game where Derek Harper dribbled out the clock thinking the Mavs were up a point (video here, check it out at 4:00). I still clearly recall wandering out of Reunion after the loss wondering what the fuck had just happened.
Oh, my other memory from that heinous game: there’s dead silence as the teams file off, and Abdul-Jabbar cups his ear with one hand as if to say “gee, where’s all that noise now?” Then someone poured a beer on his head when he reached the players’ exit.
That’d be Steve Lyons. Not only did I know that off the top of my head, if you type “Steve Lyons” into google, “Steve Lyons pants” is the second recommended result.
As a postscript to the Ryan-Ventura fight: Ryan is now the principal owner/president/CEO of the Rangers and Ventura was recently named manager of the White Sox. I don’t think they’re going to have a rematch the next time the ChiSox play the Rangers, but it’s going to be on everybody’s mind, so I’m excited about the possibilities.