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“They go to school. They do their homework. They shake hands. They say please and thank you. But once you throw that ball up, they will rip your heart out and watch you bleed.” -- Jay Bilas
Jets v. Colts, Super Bowl III
Bob Beamon's Long Jump, Mexico City Olympics '68
Franz Klammer's Downhill, '76 Innsbruck Winter Olympics
Abebe Bikila's Marathon (run barefoot) '60 Tokyo Olympics
You have to love the Gonzaga fan. Not satisfied to be affronted merely by common hosings at the hands of ragtag referees, he plows all avenues of discontent. - John Blanchette
Gonzaga University...Home of the Zags...The Bulldogs. If you pronounce it "Gone Zaw Ga," they'll know you're not from here and they may charge you more for your coffee. - Garrison Keillor
1. 1980 US Olympic hockey victory over the impossibly powerful Soviet hockey machine
2. The Epic in Miami--the January 2, 1982 NFL playoff game between Miami and San Diego, the greatest NFL football game I've ever seen on television.
3. The War--Tommy the Hit Man Hearns v. Marvelous Marvin Hagler in 1985, the greatest and most action-packed three rounds of boxing I've ever seen on television. Amazing to find out 20 years later than Hearns broke his right hand early in the fight, after nearly knocking Hagler down when he hit him on the head. Hearns said Hagler's head felt like an iron wrecking ball.
4. The Runner
5. The 1971 "Game of the Century" between Nebraska and Oklahoma in gridiron, won by the Johnny Rodgers and the Cornhuskers 35-31
1. Don Larsen's perfect game.
2. The 1974 USC-Notre Dame football game
3. Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
4. 1986 Masters
5. 1980 Miracle on Ice
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