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I was checking out a link on ESPN.com and I found these short descriptions of the worst calls in sports history that were not included in ESPN's top 10. Can anyone give me some detail on a few of these?
Denkinger calls Orta safe, , 1980 Stanley Cup Final offsides no-call, Charles White's TD, the final two seconds of the 1998 Rose Bowl, Roy Jones Jr. gold medal decision, "scoreboard" call from '75 Wake Forest-UNC game.
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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by zgall1 [/i]
[B]I was checking out a link on ESPN.com and I found these short descriptions of the worst calls in sports history that were not included in ESPN's top 10. Can anyone give me some detail on a few of these?
Denkinger calls Orta safe,.... refers to the World series between the Cardinals and Royals....1982 i believe. Orta was out by 2 steps and was called safe. forced a game 7 and Royals went on to win ....
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Roy Jones Jr was robbed of a Gold Medal in the Seoul Olympics when the Korean judges gave a decision to a Korean boxer, who practically needed to be carried out of the ring after getting his ASS kicked.
I didn't see it, but EVERYONE, to a man, said it was obviously a fix.
Years later, someone leaked that indeed, the judges had been bribed.
How much do you think it costs to buy a Korean judge?
How does $500-$600 sound? I guess they give discounts if it's a chance to act patriotic.
About 12 years later, the Olympic committee gave Jones his Gold Medal.
Bobby
Orta at first base definitely one of the biggest
My personal top grind is Colorado getting 5 downs to score a winning TD...and then in following years hearing that MegaHyprocrite Bill McCartney give speeches on how to be a good Christian man and husband...
his defense of the 5 downs is basically, "Hey that wasn't our fault, its just the way things worked out"
If he had any integrity he would have at least acknowledged that his team STOLE the game(from Miami U? as I recall)
add in his stellar marriage record(twice divorced) and we have increased reason to rank this near Top of biggest sports ripoffs.
Well maybe below the Lou Gossett Jr closing fight in the movie DIGGSVILLE...heh
The 5 down incident was actually mentioned in the top 10 of the worst calls ever.
Here's the link if anyone wants to check out the rest:
[url]http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/readers/worstcalls.html[/url]
As for the UNC scoreboard incident, UNC was down 4 with 34 seconds to go to Wake Forest in the opening round of the 1975 ACC tournament and after a UNC layup Wake threw the ball in bounds but was called for a violation. The official said the ball grazed the scoreboard and UNC got the ball and ended up winning 101-100 in OT and went on to win the ACC title 2 days later.
I see #6 on ESPN's worst call list is from the 1986 World Cup Argentina/England quarterfinal game best described in articles similar to the following one I found at the St Petersburg Times published on Oct 8/199 ([url]http://www.sptimes.com/News/100899/Sports/_Hand_of_God__beats_B.shtml[/url])
It wasn't his best goal of the game -- Diego Maradona saved that for later -- but it became perhaps the most famous (or, for England, infamous) one in World Cup history.
The quarterfinal against Argentina on June 22, 1986, was the countries' first meeting on a pitch since the Falklands War four years earlier. There were fights among some of the 114,580 spectators in Mexico City's Aztec Stadium but no incidents on the field.
That the World Cup was being played in Mexico was, in itself, remarkable. Colombia had been awarded the games, but financial woes forced it to surrender the competition.
Mexico, with three years to prepare instead of the usual six, pulled it off -- even rebuilding itself after an earthquake hit Mexico City, killing 25,000 and causing massive damage.
Five minutes into the scoreless second half, Maradona attempted to play the ball into the penalty area, but English midfielder Steve Hodge beat him to the ball and looped it back toward goalkeeper Peter Shilton.
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In a flash, Maradona caught up to the pass, arriving at the ball just as Shilton did. Maradona leaped and appeared to knock the ball into the net with the back of his left hand rather than with his head. Television replays confirmed it.
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Despite howls of protest from the British, particularly Shilton, Tunisian referee Ali Bennaceur let it stand. Maradona would never say his hand had touched the ball. "The hand of God" sent it into the net, he said.
Four minutes later, Maradona put on a 10-second, one-man show unequaled in World Cup.
Taking the ball near the right sideline 10 yards on Argentina's half of the field, he executed a 180-degree spin that rooted Peter Reid and Peter Beardsley to the spot, sprinted down the sideline past Ray Wilkins, avoided an attempted tackle by Terry Fenwick, faked past Shilton, who had come out to b l o c k him, and finally escaped a tackle by Terry Butcher and kicked a low 10-yarder into the unguarded goal.
England could manage only one goal and lost 2-1.
Even British coach Bobby Robson could not contain his admiration for Maradona's goal. "Today he scored one of the most beautiful goals you'll ever see," he said. "That first goal was dubious; the second one was a miracle, a fantastic goal. It's marvelous (for soccer) that every now and then the world produces a player like Maradona. I didn't like his second goal, but I admire it."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~end of St Petersburg article
at least Maradonna's second goal was legit, kind of making up for the bogus first one.
Flyers - Islanders - Don't remember the name of player either Bossy of Nystrom -
They were so far off-side it was ridiculous -The Linesman name was Les Steckel happen right in front of him did not call it Islanders scpore and that was the end of the series.
That it in a nutsahell - Steckel does not have a good experiences sinc then in Philly.
Flyers - Islanders - Don't remember the name of player either Bossy of Nystrom -
They were so far off-side it was ridiculous -The Linesman name was Les Steckel happen right in front of him did not call it Islanders scpore and that was the end of the series.
That it in a nutsahell - Steckel does not have a good experiences sinc then in Philly.
Orta was the worse ever as it is not often you can say that one call turned a World Series winner into a loser.
Re: McCartney...don't forget that his daughter had a baby out of wed**** which turned out to be that of his black starting QB. Nice job of parenting Bill. Normally this wouldn't be a big issue but McCartney is out preaching to everyone else about Christian values and he can't keep it together at home.
The Promise Keepers, in their trance like state during the McCartney sponsored for profit rallies, are only a few steps above a kool aid fest sponsored by Jim Jones.
Holycow is right on re: this call.
I just read the list. It kills me people keep saying the non-call on Hull's skate-in-the-crease COST Buffalo the Cup.
No it didn't. It was game SIX! And if Buffalo had won, game seven was in Dallas.
They should say the call cost Buffalo a POSSIBLE chance of winning game 6, forcing game 7, and MAYBE winning the Cup.
Also, I don't think that was one of the 10 worst calls ever. According to the rulebook, if the player has control of the puck, he could lay down and take a nap in the crease.
They should replace that with Nebraska getting to play for the NC this year instead of a team that took them behind the barn less than a month earlier.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by hawk2973 [/i]
[B]I just read the list. It kills me people keep saying the non-call on Hull's skate-in-the-crease COST Buffalo the Cup.
No it didn't. It was game SIX! And if Buffalo had won, game seven was in Dallas.
They should say the call cost Buffalo a POSSIBLE chance of winning game 6, forcing game 7, and MAYBE winning the Cup.
Also, I don't think that was one of the 10 worst calls ever. According to the rulebook, if the player has control of the puck, he could lay down and take a nap in the crease.[/B][/QUOTE]
LOL. Lets not start that up again ;)
actually Bobby, the cost is 3 German shepards and a poodle....
there's some good eatin' in them poodles.
Sonny,
I studied the Korean language and culture when I was in the army, remember? One of the first things they had to do in Seoul to prepare for those Olympics was clear the streets of the, shall we say, "hotdog stands".
The funniest e-mails Jim Rome gets are from Se Re Pak's cat.
Bobby