Winners cheat. Cheaters win. Until they get caught.
Bounties had a place in the Old West, not in the modern-day NFL.
If you whine long enough about your sports franchise losing money and threaten to take your toys and play elsewhere, panicked government officials will give you a new stadium.
Jack Jablonski, what happened to you on the ice was not your fault. But how can we miss you if the media won't leave you and your family alone?
NBC, we were not impressed with your London Olympics coverage. But as long as the money and ratings poured in, you didn't care what we thought, so long as we watched.
We had to look up who won medals at the London Olympics.
Never sign two big-name free agents to your struggling hockey team with decade-long contracts when the NHL threatens to shut down its season due to a labor dispute.
Getting whacked on the head during a game is no longer a badge of honor. It just makes you dizzy.
Replacement officials are no substitute for regular officials, whose livelihoods depend on making bad calls that can be corrected by instant replay.
The time that it took for Penn State to look the other way when one of its football coaches had his way with young boys, that will make it harder for the school to get their reputation back.
LeBron James took his talents to South Florida, and all that got him was an NBA championship.
In terms of Mannings winning Super Bowls, it is currently Eli 2, Peyton 1.
No one thought, with all their issues, the Minnesota Vikings would be relevant again after last season. Then they started giving a miraculously-healed Adrian Peterson the ball . . .
Cold shooting at the wrong time during the WNBA finals proved fatal to the Minnesota Lynx' chances of winning a second title.
No one thought the Minnesota Twins would have a worse season than they did in 2011. Until it happened again in 2012.
Rory McElroy may not be the next Tiger Woods, but he's getting there. Meanwhile, Tiger himself has yet to restore the roar.
Where would women's tennis be without Venus and Serena Williams?
Will anyone outside Los Angeles still care about the Dodgers when Vin Scully finally hangs it up?
Olympic athlete by day. High-priced call girl by night. For Suzy Favor Hamilton, truth is stranger than fiction.
With Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio, basketball fans no longer hold their noses when the Minnesota Timberwolves play.
Junior Seau, Alex Karras, Don Carter, Gary Carter, Ben Davidson, Art Modell, Joe Paterno and Steve Sabol all died this year.
John Gagliardi was not like other football coaches. Until his retirement, his laid-back style won him 489 games and four national championships for St. John's of Minnesota over a 60 year period. Like we said, he wasn't like any other football coach.
On to 2013.
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