Top 5 sports moments of 2010

1. The Decision: "I'm taking my talents to South Beach." These seven words uttered by LeBron James, with about 10 percent of the country watching, broke the hearts of an entire state (Ohio), while kinda making a touristy city that doesn't care about sports partially happy (Miami). LeBron went about the Decision incredibly wrong and he lost many fans in the process, including me, but if you didn't think the Decision was fascinating, then you don't know what fascinating is. This event was so big it broke the Mom test and created countless spoofs and angry videos from Clevelanders. The aftermath of the Decision is that the Cavaliers are terrible now, and the Heat are great. Does anyone in Miami really care though? Nope.
2. The Missed Call: When umpire Jim Joyce made an incorrect call to break up a perfect game for Detroit Tiger's pitcher Armando Gallaraga, it felt like the world was going to explode. This story transcended the world of sports and made the topic of instant replay in baseball come to the forefront of every sports discussion. In the end, a great show of sportsmanship and kindness by Gallaraga trumped everything bad that had happened, and although Gallaraga didn't technically pitch a perfect game, he got more recognition than anyone else who did this year.
3. The World Cup: And this is coming from someone who basically does not like soccer at all. The World Cup was riveting, from the opening concert to the championship match. USA made a spectacular run and the country of South Africa was put on display for all its greatness. With a German octopus predicting games, and a touch of vuvuzela controversy, there probably could not have been a more interesting world cup.
4. The Tiger Apology: There are championships won every year, great upsets, comebacks, and plays, but never has the most famous athlete in the world been caught cheating on his wife, go to a sex rehabilitation center, and then apologize for it. The Tiger Woods saga might just be the biggest sports story that crossed over into pop culture in the history of the world. I mean, damnnn, this guy was on the cover of Sports Illusrated and Us Weekly in the same week. ESPN became a station dedicated to relationship drama for months, and they spent more time on this than even the extremely annoying Brett Favre drama. Maybe not actually, Brett Favre is on ALL the time! And to make things more interesting, when Tiger returned to golf, he suddenly was not that good anymore. The entire Tiger story is one for the ages.
5. The Endless Match: When it finally did end the result was Isner def. Mahut 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 70-68. This epic Wimbledon match lasted for 11 hours and five minutes shattering records and creating one of the most remarkable sporting contests of all time. Who cares who won Wimbledon, the Isner vs. Mahut match was remarkable with the players stopping to go to the bathroom to Mahut still diving after balls in the 10th hour of a match. It was perhaps the most memorable tennis match of all time, with a fifth set for the ages.

honorable mentions: The entire olympics, especially the gold medal hockey game. Saints win the Superbowl. Butler comes oh so close to winning the NCAA tournament.