2010 Will Go Down As The Year . . .

Image by Profound Whatever via FlickrHuman error can still decide games.

Three teams--the NFL New Orleans Saints, NHL Chicago Blackhawks and baseball's San Francisco Giants--won their first titles in what seems like a lifetime.

John Wooden died a few months before the University of Conneticut women's basketball team broke the consecutive-winning streak set by the UCLA men's team he coached in the 1970s.

Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco on the same Cincinnati Bengals team meant nothing to their season.

The NFL takes concussions seriously.  Maybe too much.

The Minnesota Vikings will play anyone, anywhere, any time.  If they have to.

Michael Vick deserved a second chance in football--even President Obama thought so--but not with another dog.

If Brett Favre knew there'd be a season like this, he'd have stayed home.

The Heisman Trophy used to be a prestigious award.

Everyone complains about the Bowl Championship Series, but no one does anything about it.

Having a spiffy new ballpark couldn't mask the Minnesota Twins' shortcomings outside their own division, as the New York Yankees once again proved.

Just when you thought Jacques Lemaire was done coaching the New Jersey Devils, they pulled him back in.

No one wants to watch the Cleveland Cavaliers without LeBron James.

"The Decision" proves James is a team player, and not the next Michael Jordan.  He also didn't want to be a big fish in a small pond, so he chose to take his talents next to the ocean instead.

Other than Kevin Love, why would anybody want to watch the Minnesota Timberwolves?

Does anyone still want to be Tiger Woods?

Quick!  Other than Phil Mickelson, who won golf's majors this year?

The Canadians didn't win many gold medals at the Winter Olympics they hosted in Vancouver.  Just the most important ones in men's and women's hockey.

For one brief, shining moment, Lindsey Vonn became a household name outside the ski slopes.

The Minnesota Lynx added hometown hero Lindsay Whelan to a roster that included Seimone Augustus and Candice Wiggins, and they still found a way to avoid the WNBA playoffs.

Kim Kardashian dates athletes while sister Khloe married one.

The only Triple Crown winner in horse racing this year wasn't on the track, but at your local multiplex:  "Secretariat".

The one thing people will remember from soccer's World Cup in South Africa (besides the questionable calls):  those noisy vuvuzelas.

KFAN and KSTP-AM (aka 1500ESPN) are really talk stations that do sports.

George Steinbrenner, Sparky Anderson, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Ralph Houk, Manute Bol, Ron Santo, Bobby Thomson, Bob Feller, Merlin Olsen, Don Meredith, Bud Greenspan, Pat Burns, George Blanda, Dave Niehaus and Ernie Harwell called it a life.

2011 awaits.