What Is The Greatest Sporting Feat or Moment?
 

so what is the greatest sporting Feat or Moment?

it could be anything and not necesarily a world record. just an astonishing event that stands out in your mind. it could be a world record, it could be a knockout, it could be a moment, a team sport win, or a streak.

For me it would have to be Bob Beamons long jump in mexico city. it changed the sport and stood for 23 years.

share your greatest moments.

well the moment that I will always remember for the rest of my life is watching Boston win the title in '04. All the pain of previous years gone..

Gretzky beats Howe's record of 1,850 career points
 

This is going to vary depending on our favourite sports, of course, and I think that's great.

Growing up in Canada in the '80s, it was hard for a kid not to be awed by NHL hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, who would become known as the Great One. I even had a Wayne Gretzky lunch pail.

Anyway, he played a game where, in one season, scoring 20 to 30 goals makes you a "goal scorer," 50 goals makes you a "sharpshooter," and 100 points makes you a top player in the league. Gretzky, in his best years, scored 92 goals in one season and 215 points (52 goals, 163 assists) in another. Yet, even after such record-breaking feats, he still had one milestone ahead of him: legend (and Gretzky's idol) Gordie Howe's long-standing record of 1,850 total career points.

Well, it didn't take him long. He managed to break Howe's record in about 1/3 of the time (and against his former team, the Edmonton Oilers), and would go on to score more than 1,000 more in his career. It will be a long time before many of Gretzky's records are broken...if they ever will be--they are that astounding.

Wayne Gretzky's Record-breaking 1,851st Career Point
Los Angeles Kings vs. Edmonton Oilers
October 15, 1990

That ski jumper crashing off the ramp at the intro to "Wide World of Sport" - you know, "the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat ... CRASH!".

That guy is a god.

i think its great that we're getting different sports here.

gucci - for the dummies like me..the only boston team i know is the celtics..and i know the celtics didnt win the NBA in '04.

care to elaborate mate?

i am not a particularly avid sports fan generally, but there are three moments i remember:

france beating brazil 3-0 in the 1998 world cup finals.

the red sox world series win in 04.

but for some reason, the new england patriots winning their first super bowl is a particularly strong memory. i remember watching the game in a shitty sports bar in philadelphia on a wall of monitors and thinking i never thought i would see this, that it was the most implausible thing i had experienced sports-wise. for years, in us football, there was bad, there was really bad and there was the patriots. the only football game i have been to featured the patriots against the houston oilers during the babe parelli period, and even though i was at the time a little kid, i knew i was watching a game that was almost unimaginably bad that day.

now that i think about it, the red sox had more impact on me, even though i remember it less well---after they won a world series, it seemed like the map of sports i had carried around in my head the whole of my life had been messed up. the red sox existed to break your heart. that is what they did. you learned certain things from this--like nothing that happened before the all star break meant anything because afterward, the red sox would start to implode. and even if the sox made it into the playoffs, you knew--you just knew--that something was going to go horribly wrong and that the sox would loose. nothing sums all this up better than buckner's ground ball.

after the sox actually won, i didn't watch sports at all for a couple years. nothing made sense any more.

I'm going to have to narrow it down from a few choices.

They are:

1) Richard Petty's 200 NASCAR wins.
2) Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in an NBA game.
3) Tom Brady throwing 50 touchdown passes in 2007.
4) Cal Ripken's "iron man" streak of playing 2632 consecutive games.

Baseball, our Aussie friend :)

The Red Sox winning their first championship in 86 years.

That's not my memory, though :lol:

I didn't see it when it happened, but I watch it a lot and still get teared up-Dale Earnhart, Sr.'s first and only win of the Daytona 500 in 1998.
Even the announcer choked up as he stated that every man from every team came out to congratulate Dale on his victory.
Three years later he would die at the same track.

I wouldn't call it the greatest, but there is one memory that definitely sticks out as a contender: South Africa beating Australia in the greatest one-day cricket game ever.

Australia scored a mammoth 434 for the loss of only 4 wickets. At the end of their innings I was stunned - I couldn't believe so many runs could be scored in only 50 overs. I was sure it'd be a case of SA coming out blazing but fizzling out with a middle order collapse. I couldn't have been more wrong.

Come out blazing they did, but with a determination that gave me hope. I knew it was a longshot, but just the thought that they might actually get there kept me glued to the screen.

Long story short, we won in amazing fashion. Herschelle Gibbs scored an amazing 175 and Mark Boucher hit the winning runs off Brett Lee to the roar of the crowds (as well as those at my house).

438 for 9...in a one-day. I still can't believe it.

I don't know much about cricket. How many runs are normally scored by a team in the typical game?

Phelps winning all 8 medals was pretty big.

i remember that match quite clearly. if you can chase a huge total like that, you deserve to win. it would have been an honour just being a part of that game.

the average number of runs ranges from about 180 up to 300 runs.

remembering that 1 over is 6 balls. times that by 50 overs=300 balls per match.

which meant that they were scoring on average more than a run per ball which is crazy. i still cant believe it..438... people dont score that in a test match over 5 days.

dj - thanks mate. i know next to nothing about baseball. i can tell you a bit about cricket though :D

Well, in the context of the Australia vs SA game...

The Aussies first innings score was a massive world record, the previous being 398 by Sri Lanka against Kenya (a non test playing nation)

So basically the Australian batsman decimated the previous world record and scored almost 40 more runs than any other team had done in a ODI, and then the South Africans came out and scored even more. Not a great day to be a bowler! I remember the bbc report at the time describing the crowd as "delirious" by the end!

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For me its hard to choose, but because its so fresh in the memory I think I'll have to say Usain Bolt's 3 Golds and 3 WR's.

The 100 was just phenomonal, and the relay was incredible and a fantastic moment for Safa as well, but the 200 was the best for me - especially as the American legend Johnson has been saying all over the TV that Bolt couldnt beat his record this time at least... I can still remember at the end the commentator just gibbering about the fact that he had broken the WR into a headwind, and then remembering he was supposed to actually be calling the places but didnt know, and saying "I'm sorry, I have no idea who finished second or third..."

The time i set a track record in the 400m hurdles at a small college in Wisconsin. I can't remember if it was St. Norbert's or Ripon. Somewhere around there.

Whitewater HS's game-winning TD drive with 1:45 on the clock in the 1980 state playoffs. Maybe it was 1981. It was the best football game i've ever seen.

I don't want to encourage what is a theatre of cruelty, but the Tour de France deserves mention. The riders need drugs to just to get through a stage, and just to finish is really quite remarkable.

And wile it may not involve any sporting skill, for pure class - you wont see much classier than Mo Cheeks helping out the young girl who forget the words to the national anthem. Im not even American and it gives me goosebumps.

You can find it in Youtube easily enough if you search "mo cheeks anthem" but I probably cant post it on here because the singer is just a kid.

Just the opposite here :p

Interesting, considering that the two sports come from the same lineage.

+1

Wow, this one is kinda tough.

I guess I don't really have a single moment but a few.

Watching Joe Carter's walk off HR in the World Series.

Terrell Owens dropping all those balls against GB in the playoffs then making that grab at the end between all those defenders and getting sammiched and nor dropping the ball.

Young to Rice in the Superbowl, third play of the game TD. Rice had 3 that day and SF rolled SD.

I could probably sit here and think of a ton, but those have to be my three most vivid that I actually watched happen.

I'll stick to things I actually saw:

Secretariat beating the field by 31 lengths at the Belmont to win the Triple Crown. It's my first sporting memory and I remember laughing like a drain watching Big Red whip everyone else.

Liverpool coming back from 3 goals down to AC Milan in the 2005 Champions League final to win in extra time. Maybe the best football/soccer comeback ever.

Jack Nicklaus winning his 6th Masters in 1986 at the age of 46 and well past his prime. You got chills listening to the roar of the crowd.

Tiger winning the US Open last year on a busted leg.

Tiger beating the field by 15 strokes at Pebble to win the US Open a few years ago. Maybe the most complete sporting performance ever.

Usain Bolt at this summer's Olympics setting 3 world records and winning 3 golds in spectacular fashion.

The US beating the USSR in the Miracle in Ice at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

The USSR beating Canada 8-1 at the Montreal Forum in the 1981 Canada Cup Final. I was at the that game - we had Gretzky, Lafleur, Bossy, a team full of Hall of Famers and got utterly and completely smoked.

The Montreal Canadiens vs Red Army New Year's Eve 1975. Maybe the best hockey game ever. 3-3 was the final score and if you're new to hockey and want to see a great game, look this one up. Fantastic stuff.

Oh, and for dlish - the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final and the drop goal winner by Johnny Wilkinson. You gotta love that one.

:)

couldnt help yourself could ya....

i dont remember it..at all. its too painful to remember!

golf - tiger woods winning his first masters with a massive 18 under, at the age of 21.

boxing (best)- ali vs foreman - rumble in the jungle
boxing (worst) - tyson vs holyfield - ear biting incident

swimming - US medley? relay team pipping the french at the post to keep phelps dreams alive of winning 8 gold in a single olympics

basketball - chicago bulls three-peat

rugby league - benny elias hitting the crossbar with the fieldgoal that would have won the Balmain Tigers the premiership

australian football - tony lockett kicking a goal after the buzzer to get the sydney swans into the grand final

rugby union - jonah lomu trampling over his opponent going in for a try

Watching Chelski get drummed by United 3-0 earlier today :p

I remember in '04 when Dave Roberts stole second base in the ALCS against the yankees.. that moment is the one single moment that started the greatest comeback in baseball history.

There are tons of great ones.. I just am not in the right mind set atm to write them down.

Nobody for the Henderson goal in 1972 in Moscow? When an entire country stood still and held its collective breath?

Boxing: Corrales vs. Castillo #1, for me, was the most exciting thing I have seen, sports-wise. Corrales getting up and winning was quite a feat.

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what about soccer anyone?

c'mon gucci - surely you watch soccer

for me it would be the 'hand of god' goal by maradonna

that's post 22

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as if you couldn't tell by my avatar..

and it's football..not soccer :lol:

How about Solskjaer coming off the bench and scoring 4 goals in 12 minutes against Forest? Or his game winning goal to win the '99 UEFA Champions League and securing the Treble?

This is one of my pet peeves. Why in the hell would you agree to sing the national anthem in front of thousands of people and show up without knowing the lyrics? She clearly didn't know half of the lyrics. Nerves can screw up a word or two but she forgot half the song. Who would agree to such a performance and come so unprepared?
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This is it for me. Being Appalachian State alumni and witnessing this was simply amazing. The 3 consecutive championship wins on top of it are close in 2nd.

As I understood it she had the flu, and was very nervous, and just froze.

And while everyone just stood there watching, Mo Cheeks had the guts and heart to go and help her.

Michael Jordan dropping 55 against the Knicks when he came out of retirement.

David Tyree's helmet catch in Super Bowl XLII

Vince Carter jumping over Frederic Weis in the 2000 Olympics

Travis Pastrana's double backflip at the Summer X games in 2006

I know the end of post 20 got you all riled up, but the second item in that post is what you Aussies call "soccer"!

:thumbsup:

Evander Holyfield's 11th round TKO victory over Mike Tyson. I just wish that the ref had let Evander continue to hit Tyson until Tyson fell down.



A very exciting fight!!

There was some controversey over Corrales twice intentionally spitting out his mouthpiece. Many people, myself included, felt that the fight should've been stopped when he did it the second time, with a TKO victory going to Castillo.

what do people think of the carl lewis vs leroy burrell see-sawing long jump competition at the world championship in tokya '92?

although i regard carl as a cheat these days, back then as a kid i was in awe of the spectacle along with his 9.86 in the 100m sprint.

Carl Lewis was a cheat? How so?

just the first article that came up when i googled it...

Carl Lewis's positive test covered up - smh.com.au

take everything with a grain of salt.. or a tablet.

excuse my pessimistic attitude. this thread is about finding the best of athletes.

I think that 7 of the 8 finalists in Seoul 1988 has since tested positive for some drug or another.

huh. and we really took it on the chin for Ben Johnson. Is there any statute of limitations?

Or, the original results should be reinstated, as it appears that there was in fact a level playing ground.

I will never forget this. This was Mika Hakkinnen passing Michael Schumaker in one of the most awesome passing moves I have ever seen in my life.

I'm with Highthief on this one.

The 2005 Champions League Final, or The European Cup as I still like to call it.

That night will forever be in my memories. It had everything, the low point of going down 3-0 at half time. The possibility of getting back in the game when we scored our first (Captain Fantastic, you're a legend!)
And then the drama of equalising goal and the final piece of heart-busting nonsense, the penalty shoot out!
We were all in our garden screaming at the tops of our voices.
Wow! What a night! :) :)

as much as I hate to agree with dirty scousers, this was a fantastic game.

The greatest goal ever? (especially if youre a Liverpool fan)


For US Football fans, just think, people miss field goals from that range...

I'll see your scouse and raise you a Manc ;)



not the greatest United goal in history but it was an amazing strike.

Meh, actually the best United goal I've seen was Giggs against Arsenal years ago in the FA Cup. Youtube that one. By all rights he should have passed it, but kept running and scored, the selfish bastard.

Actually, of Gerrard's strikes, yeah the 2006 Final was great, but for pure technique, earlier this year against Marseille, his first goal was spectacular. You're not supposed to be able to contort your body that way and still hit it like that.

I know that goal quite well.. it was pure brilliance, with a tad of luck thrown in. I would love to see Giggsy do something similar these days. Giggs is getting a bit old but still has great pace for his age and his ability to put the ball on the mark is superb.

I'm guessing you are saying 'Meh' because it was a Rooney goal. Many people (even in the United ranks) wonder why he's so popular... I like him not just because he has the ability to score fantastic goals.. but he's great at marking back as well as passing... but I digress.. here's Giggs:




and here's the 4 goals in 10 minutes that I eluded too earlier by Solskjaer

Michael Schumacher's 7 F1 world championships. It will never happen again.

Nah, I just didn't think the goal was all that great. Good, not great.

i forgot about this one...

derek redmond being helped by his dad in the 400m mens semi final of the 1992 Barcelona Games

Pele's performance in the 1958 world cup. I doubt we will see a 17 year old being the man of the match in a world cup anytime soon.

I remember where i was standing ...it was in a store electronics section. The Knicks where up on my Pacers by 7 with 9 seconds left ....even us die hard pacer fans thought it was over and then reggie miller proceeds to score 8 points in 9 seconds for one of the greatest personal performances in basketball history.

ahhhhhh yes. i remember that quite clearly.

Whenever anyone mentions Ryan Giggs' goal against Arsenal, all I have in my head is the image of him wipping his shirt off and twirling it round his head! Not a pretty sight! My wife hides behind her hands until it's over! LOL

With regards to Gerrards goal against West Ham in the FA Cup Final, when you consider that at least half of all the players were hobbling around with cramp (which seems to be an FA Cup curse!), Gerrard included, you couldn't write a better ending to a movie!

Stevie, you're the man! Let's hope you do what you do so well against the mighty Real Madrid tomorrow night!

:thumbsup:

Liverpool 1 - 2 Barnsley.

That's cool you're an Appalachian State Alumni, I grew up with CoCo Hillary, he plays WR for the Mountaineers. I was going crazy when I watched that game too. :oogle:

HATE this by the way. Nothing personal, I was just at Chattanooga in 2006 with UMass for the championship. This was basically a home game for AppState!

I gotta go with my homer picks of watching the Sox win in 04. Honestly the ALCS was more riveting than the WS itself! Celts in 08! Especially renewing the Laker rivalry of old. There's always a special spot when your hometown team beats a big rival on the way to glory.

Other than that I'll have to go with Phelps. Outstanding!

oh, I would like to add to my previous post. Besides Pele in 1958, there is also Jesse Owens in 1936.

greatest?

most infamous maybe? that along with the massacre of israeli athletes have to be the most infamous sporting moments for me.

politics and sport do not mix

Okay fine...
http://www.pacsignatures.com/shop/images/P/a-29.jpg




:D

Oh, man - you can't compare terrorists gunning athletes down with a couple of guys doing a Ghandi and simply protesting peacefully.

you're absolutely right. you cant.

but if i was to be asked about the day politics was mixed with politics, this would be at number 1.

the greatest rugby league game ever played. the 1988 grand final. even if my team was on the losing end.

What about Tiger Woods winning a Major on a fractured leg and torn up knee, limping around the course and still gutting out a victory with amazing shots? Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Really being a Boston fan, the Patriots in 01-02 was amazing for me. No Boston team had won anything since the '86 Celtics 15 years before and the Pats had virtually no real stars and a 6th round QB off the bench! That Super Bowl run elevated a bunch of never-heard-of-thems to household names. And that playoff run from the improbable snow bowl, to Bledsoe coming off the bench and tossing a TD to Patton in the Pittsburg game, to Brady's drive and Vinatieri's kick to finish the Big Game, it was all amazing. And after that Boston fans believed that they could have winning teams again, and in a small way galvanized the Red Sox to finally get over the hump in '04 (which incidentally had the best ALCS ever).

Read the story of Jim Thorpe's 1912 Olympic performance. 4 events---long jump, high jump, pentathlon, and decathlon. The events overlapped, Thorpe won the pentathlon, winning 4 of 5 events outright, while also qualifying for the high jump finals on the same day. He got gold in the decathlon as well as the pentathlon winning a total of 8 out the fifteen events outright.

Michael Schumacher's 91 wins may never be topped. Complete dominance of the sport for almost 10 years.

Mary Lou Retton (sp?) 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

The "Miracle on Ice" in Lake Placid 1980

On a more personal note: going a winless 0-8 my junior year of football and and undefeated 8-0 my senior year.

how could i forget. the first saints game after Hurricane Katrina. It was truly a great moment the energy in the buliding. The fact that some of the fans where the same people who where using the dome as a shelter just a year piror.

Kirk Gibson hobbling to the plate for the Dodgers in the World Series and homers against Oakland.

The best thing I ever witnessed in person might be a tie. On my 13th birthday, Scott Niedermayer scored a hat trick for the New Jersey Devils and they beat the Bruins in OT - that was cool!

However, I think the game that took the cake was when the Yankees played the Devil Rays a few years ago - I think Randy Johnson was starting against Hideo Nomo if I recall correctly. I was visiting my dad in the summer and we wanted to get tickets to a game - he insisted we go to see the "great" Randy Johnson, and we got some great tickets on StubHub, I mean, GREAT tickets (and we moved up too!) and went on a sweet journey to the game that involved a subway ride and almost getting lost :)
Anyway, Randy Johnson stuck and the Devil Rays pounded on him for like seven runs. Eventually the game really got out of hand and the Yanks were within a few runs by the time the 8th inning rolled around, and then before you know it, the Yanks bats went absolutely apeshit insane and I thought we were watching batting practice. We pitied the people who all left the game because this was a fireworks show - 13 runs in the 8th with several home runs. Posada, Rodriguez, Matsui, and Sheffield I think, all sent ones into the seats. Matsui jacked one into dead center and I think he had a RBI double earlier in the inning.
The best part was Bernie Williams bases-loaded triple that gave the Yanks the lead. I will never forget that one. He smacked it over Damon Hollins head in center field and he had a lot of trouble fielding the ball - if Bernie was younger, it would have been an inside-the-park home run for sure. But the 3 RBIs had capped a few base hits and took the lead, and then the next seven runs were just for show. It was really absurd.

I managed to jack the clip from MLB because I knew eventually they'd take it down or ask money for it,and I'm so glad I did :)

I will ALWAYS remember Aaron Boone sending a moonshot on the first pitch of the bottom of the 11th in game 7 of the 2003 ALCS to send the Yankees to the world series. It was easily a moment that could have been missed, and the call for it isn't really legendary in its own right but when I just THINK about how he turned on the pitch and sent it into the left field seats I get some serious chills. NO ONE would saw that coming and it was just like a cold nail right into the heart of the Red Sox Nation (who would get their revenge).

That's probably the best moment I've ever witnessed on TV. Clips of a few things mentioned here also give me chills - Gibson knocking Eckersley's pitch out and hobbling around the bases and Vin Sculley's call, Mets v. Red Sox in '86 and the Bill Buckner play (a little roller up along first .. BEHIND THE BAG! IT GETS THROUGH BUCKNER! HERE .... COMES ... KNIGHT AND THE METS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and a few more. I have a lot of random clips saved of good events like this :)

Aside from Baseball, I've seen a clip of Dennis Bergkamp scoring one against Argentina to win it for the Netherlands in the final seconds and the announcer completely loses his mind.

Edwin Moses has been in the news of late, and i just couldnt help but acknowlege his unbeaten record of 9 years, 9 months and 9 days in the 400m hurdles. He revolutionised the sport with the introduction of the 13 steps technique between hurdles.

Edwin, one of my forgotten heroes as a kid. Salute!

Roger Bannister breaking the 4 Min mark in the mile


no other name is synonymous with breaching an untouchable mark than Bannister

Baseball: The Randy Johnson pitching to John Kruk in the 1993 All-Star Game.

College football: 34-32. 'Nuff said.

I thought of that first but the thing is it isn't for me because I wasn't even born yet.

For me this is good
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but this is better
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or to tell the truth even this
http://www.e-forwards.com/wp-content...te-get_584.jpg

because I can remember the huge celebrations going on for both of those. Although I do admit to getting goosebumps everytime I watch '72.

Saturday May 1st, 2010.... the Cleveland Cavaliers come back and win 101-93 after being down by 11 at the half.

Not a Lebron fan but love my Cleveland teams.

For me it has to be the Red Sox 04 post season run. Hands down the greatest, I guess collective sports moments I've ever witnessed. Not only was comeback against the Yankees historic (no team had ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in a 7 game series), the series itself produced some absolute classic games/moments. Dave Roberts steal of second to help tie game 4 and keep the Sox alive, David Ortiz hitting back to back extra inning walkoffs, the meat grinder 14 inning 5 hour 49 minute game 5 marathon, the "Bloody Sock" game and finally winning game 7 at Yankee Stadium...

...all that and the World Series hadn't started yet. They still had to face the St Louis Cardinals, a team who had beaten them in two previous World Series. The Curse of the Bambino was still alive and nobody really expected them to break the 86 year curse...how wrong we were. The Red Sox swept the series 4-0 in what turned out to be a pretty routine, uneventful series, in fact they held the lead in all four games. However watching them win the championship was the highlight, and my god how sweet it was. As an eerie side not to the Series, game 4 in which the Red Sox won the championship, was played under a Lunar Eclipse, coupled with all the talk of breaking the curse it was an odd, eerie coincidence and gave the win a weird supernatural feel...I guess you had to be there.

Anyway it was amazing ride, one I don't think, for me will ever be duplicated.

Cant believe no one has mentioned the 1994 Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers. It was their first title since 1940!! 54 years is a long time to wait!

Ouch. yes, that's right. And Leaf's nation is in its what? 43rd year with no championship? I can't imagine waiting another 11 years. Wait a minute.. yes I can.

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I hear you Morph. You weren't born yet, but the '72 series was different in that it pitted ideologies (Western capatalistic freedom and individualism against Soviet communistic hegemony and suppression of the will) so that the Canadian superstars came off as out of shape desparate cowboys compared to the severly disciplined, well oiled machine that was Team CCCP.

The fact that at the hight of the Cold War, our modest, yet proud country was able to flip the bird to the big bad Soviets was, to me even as a 13 year old, the epitome of sporting achievement.

I still remember the cries of "Da Da Canada, Nyet Nyet Soviet" during the games and ironically shouts of "We Want Yakushev" at Maple Leaf Gardens in the subsequent NHL season when Paul Henderson was sitting out.

ahh.. good times those Cold War years eh?

It's been mentioned, but The Miracle on Ice, 1980 Winter Olympics. In the context of the Cold War, it was a supreme moment for Americans, especially those of us who grew up fearing the Russians, even though it wasn't for the gold. Everywhere you went, people were talking.

I have another small moment that will always stand out for me, even though I didn't see it in person, only the reports of it. I can't link the article or the Youtube, so I'll paraphrase. May, 2008, womens' softball, Western Oregon University vs. Central Washington in a game to advance to the playoffs. A WOU player hits her first ever homer that will win the game, but she missed first base. She turned to come back to the base, but collapsed from a knee injury. She's just laying there, can't walk, much less run and she needs to score in order to win the game. Two CWU players pick her up and carry her around the bases, stopping to touch each bag and finishing at home plate to win the game, eliminating them from the playoffs.

It is the single greatest act of sportsmanship I ever heard of. They said she hit the homer, she deserved the home run. I wasn't there and didn't know anyone in the game, but it has stuck with me since seeing it on the sports news.

I had not seen that before. Very cool.

great story Gina..

aww shux.. fugly beat me to it

Thanks and thanks for posting the video. It's not how you win, it's how ya play the game, in action. :)