Comments on: Pointers http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2006/05/pointers/ Economic Thinking about Baseball Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Beamer http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2006/05/pointers/comment-page-1/#comment-5376 Beamer Tue, 09 May 2006 16:53:20 +0000 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2006/05/pointers/#comment-5376 Interesting top 5. But unfortunately (in my humble view) it misses many of the truly (global) momentous moments in sport: 1. Tiger Woods winning the Grand Slam of golf 2. Carl Lewis and Michael Powell swapping world records (OK, Lewis' was wind assisted) at the 1991 Tokyo World Championships 3. Michael Johnson clocking 19.32 at the 96 Atlanta Olympics 4. Manchester United scoring twice in the last minute to beat Bayern Munich in the 1999 European Cuup final in soccer 5. Lance Armstrong winning 7 (count em) Tour de France after recovering from cancer Interesting top 5. But unfortunately (in my humble view) it misses many of the truly (global) momentous moments in sport:

1. Tiger Woods winning the Grand Slam of golf
2. Carl Lewis and Michael Powell swapping world records (OK, Lewis’ was wind assisted) at the 1991 Tokyo World Championships
3. Michael Johnson clocking 19.32 at the 96 Atlanta Olympics
4. Manchester United scoring twice in the last minute to beat Bayern Munich in the 1999 European Cuup final in soccer
5. Lance Armstrong winning 7 (count em) Tour de France after recovering from cancer

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