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A's News Clips, Tuesday, December 29, 2009 the '00S: a Sports Decade in Review A’s News Clips, Tuesday, December 29, 2009 The '00s: A sports decade in review By Cam Inman, Bay Area News Group, 12/28/09 OUR BAY AREA sports teams sure put the "0" in the 2000s. The decade is done. Our championship tally is none. Review the past 10 Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Finals and something apparently known as the Stanley Cup Finals: We went 0-for-40. We should have seen this drought coming, considering the 1994 49ers produced the last major sports championship, with all due respect to the trophy-toting San Jose Sabercats, San Jose Earthquakes and Bay Area/San Jose CyberRays. Why no major titles since Y2K? We've blamed incompetent owners and their general managers. We've changed coaches almost as often as stadium names (4.2 coaches per team, 3.2 names per venue). We've ridiculed players for their unfulfilling draft status, unworthy free-agent jackpots and positive drug tests. Yet we celebrated Giants slugger Barry Bonds' march to a record-setting 71st home run in 2001 and 756th career home run in 2007. (P.S. The Giants lost in those record-setting games.) We "believed" in a better tomorrow for the Warriors. And we waited for Billy Beane's next trade with the A's, the Sharks' next playoff collapse and the next great quarterbacks to turn around the 49ers and Raiders. Our college campuses chipped in with the occasional March madness, bowl games, Olympic-bound athletes and, egads, tree sitters. Let's now bow our head and pay respect to all we've learned from this dreary decade (born: Jan. 1, 2000; died: Dec. 31, 2009): BIGGEST STORY: Embers still pollute our air thanks to the performance-enhancing drug scandal that arose in 2003 from Victor Conte's Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (a k a "BALCO"). Does that make IRS agent Jeff Novitzky the decade's MVP for uncovering a web that ensnarled so many athletes, chief among them Bonds? QUOTE OF THE DECADE: "This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period." — Bonds, after his 756th home run eclipsed Hank Aaron's all-time record on Aug. 7, 2007 . BEST 49ER: Defensive lineman Bryant Young. A stoic leader throughout a 14-year career, he finished strong despite the 49ers' struggles. BEST RAIDER: Quarterback Rich Gannon. His leadership and on-field production has been irreplaceable since his career- ending neck injury in 2004, two years after a league-MVP effort and Super Bowl trip. BEST GIANT: Left fielder Barry Bonds. He won four of his seven National League MVP awards in this decade, honors overlooked by his controversial assent to the all-time home-run title (insert: *) in 2007, his final season. BEST ATHLETIC: General manager Billy Beane. His constant trades and roster moves turned the low-payroll A's into contenders (up until 2007). As for their best player, pick between Miguel Tejada, Eric Chavez, Jason Giambi, Barry Zito and a minor-league prospect to be named later BEST SHARK: Goaltender Evgeni Nabokov. Arguments could be made in favor of Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton, but the chants of "Nab-by! Nab-by!" echoed loudest in The Shark Tank. BEST WARRIOR: Point guard Baron Davis. He sparked the Warriors' 2007 playoff run, and had a poster-esque dunk over Utah's Andrei Kirilenko in Game 3 of the Western Conference semis. No, B.D. wasn't here long, but who ever is in the NBA? BEST BOOKENDS: Stanford football. The decade began with Cardinal in the 2000 Rose Bowl (losing 17-9 to Wisconsin) and it ends with Stanford in the Sun Bowl this New Year's Eve. BEST GAME: The 2002 49ers' 39-38, wild-card win over the New York Giants that went down as the second-greatest comeback in playoff history. The 49ers rallied from a 24-point deficit and haven't posted a postseason win since then. Did Chike Okeafor cast a spell on the 49ers by getting away with pass interference on the Giants' last-gasp pass? OTHER THRILL OF VICTORIES: The 2002 Raiders regular-season win at Denver, ending a four-game losing streak and sparking their Super Bowl run. ... The 2002 Giants clinching the first National League pennant on Kenny Lofton's ninth- inning RBI single. .... The Sharks staved off playoff elimination thanks to overtime goals by Patrick Marleau in 2009 against Anaheim and Joe Pavelski in 2008 against Dallas, only to lose those series in the ensuing game. .... Stanford men's basketball team topping Arizona in 2004 on a buzzer beater at Maples Pavilion. ... Cal football beat USC 34-31 in triple overtime in 2003 at Memorial Stadium. WORST GAME: The 2002 World Series, Game 6. Eight outs shy of San Francisco's first-ever crown, the Giants blew a 5-0 lead and fell 6-5 to the host Anaheim Angels. Dusty Baker took out pitcher Russ Ortiz, handed him the ball as a souvenir and Felix Rodriguez promptly yielded a three-run, rally-sparking homer to Scott Spiezio. OTHER AGONY OF DEFEATS: The "Tuck Rule" game in which the 2001 Raiders lost at snowy New England, after a controversial call on a Tom Brady sack (er, incompletion) erased a game-clinching fumble. ... Of all the Sharks' playoff pratfalls, last season's first-round exit was embarrassing, but the true agony came via a four-overtime elimination loss at Dallas in the 2008 conference semis. ... Derek Jeter's surreal relay flip to nab Jeremy "Didn't Slide" Giambi at the plate in Game 3 of the Yankees-A's 2001 playoff series. ...Cal football, on the cusp of a No. 1 ranking, blew a second-half lead to Oregon State and lost six of its final seven regular-season games in 2007. BEST COMEBACK: Garrison Hearst, 49ers. Two years after breaking his ankle in a playoff-opening loss at Atlanta, Hearst returned in 2001 and ran for 1,206 yards. MEMORABLE INJURIES: Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon (neck, from Derrick Brooks' hit, 2004), Giants pitcher Robb Nen (arm, wear-and-tear, 2002), Giants second baseman Jeff Kent (wrist, motorcycle/truck washing accident, 2002), Monta Ellis (ankle, unconfirmed moped crash, 2008). BEST TRADE: Joe Thornton, Sharks. No, he hasn't taken the Sharks to Stanley Cup glory since his November 2005 arrival from Boston, but he's annually kept them on the precipice. Other top trades: Baron Davis to the Warriors in February 2005, Jason Schmidt to the Giants in 2001. WORST TRADE: Randy Moss, Raiders. He came to Raiders HQ with a police motorcade, played two loafing seasons and left to New England in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick (cornerback John Bowie). Other nominees: A.J. Pierzynski to the Giants in 2004; Terrell Owens from the 49ers to the Eagles in 2004 after he forgot to void his contract and hit free agency. CLASS OF CAL: Swimmer Natalie Coughlin. Three-time NCAA Swimmer of the Year, she won six medals at the 2008 Beijing Games and defended her title as the 100-meter backstroke gold medalist. CLASS OF STANFORD: Running back Toby Gerhart. The Heisman Trophy runner-up and Doak Walker winner has run for a school-record 1,736 yards and 26 touchdowns en route to the Cardinal's first bowl game in eight years. CLASS OF SAN JOSE STATE: Safety Neil Parry. Three years after having his lower right leg amputated — he broke it against Texas-El Paso and developed life-threatening infections -- he made an inspiring return with a prosthetic limb against Nevada in 2003. CLASS OF SANTA CLARA: Midfielder Aly Wagner. A two-time Olympian and veteran National Team member, her goal lifted the Broncos to a 1-0 win in the 2001 national championship against North Carolina. CLASS OF SAINT MARY'S: Point guard Patty Mills. The Australian native and 2008 Olympian delivered two sensational seasons in Moraga before turning pro. BEST COACHING CHANGE: Jeff Tedford has turned a 1-10 Cal football program into a perennial bowl team (no roses, though) in eight seasons. Other nominees: Don Nelson 2.0 (Warriors, 2006), Joanne Boyle (Cal women's basketball, 2005), Jim Harbaugh (Stanford football, 2007). WORST COACHING CHANGE: The Raiders trading Jon Gruden for a bounty of draft picks and cash in 2002 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, whom he promptly led to a Super Bowl rout that season over the Raiders. Other nominees: Mike Montgomery, Stanford to Warriors, 2004; 49ers, Steve Mariucci to Dennis Erickson, 2003; Giants, Dusty Baker to Felipe Alou, 2003. MOST EPIC FIRING: Al Davis' two-part press conference in October 2008, when he used an overhead projector to declare Lane "Flat-Out Liar" Kiffin's firing. Then Tom Cable was introduced as the interim coach (and aren't they all?). BEST CELEBRATION: Confetti fell from Oracle Arena's roof, fans rejoiced in their yellow "WE BELIEVE" T-shirts and the Warriors notched a 111-86 Game 6 win to clinch a first-round upset of the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks in 2007. It was the Warriors first playoff appearance in 13 years and first series win since 1991. WORST CELEBRATION: Terrell Owens rushed to the Dallas Cowboys' midfield logo twice after scoring touchdowns in a 2000 49ers victory at Texas Stadium, birth place of the controversial T.O. alter-ego. GREATEST SAVE: Giants first baseman J.T. Snow grabbed bat boy Darrin Baker -- manager Dusty Baker's son — safely away from the plate during a Game 5 rally in the 2002 World Series at AT&T Park. BIG GAME SCORECARD: Cal 7 wins, Stanford 3. Cal has won seven of the past eight.
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