Five at 10: Tressel quits, Memorial Day memories

Wow. Breaking news that Jim Tressel resigned as THE football coach at THE Ohio State University. There will be plenty more on this in Tuesday's Times Free Press.

For today's Memorial Day 5-at-10, let's move really quickly for two reasons: One it's Memorial Day; two, here's hoping you're heading to a cookout or a shindig of some sort.

From the "7-Up Stinks Studio," here's our top five sports memories on this Memorial Day. (Side note:These are those, "You remember exactly where you were and when it happened," moments. Side note, No. 2: There are a bunch of events that we attended - and a lot of college football games that could be on this list that may be a little more personally memorable for the 5-at-10. But these are the biggies of our sporting lifetime.)

- Laettner's shot downs Kentucky: Best college basketball game we can remember watching. And one of the best finishes - Kentucky leading by one over the defending champ Duke with right at 2 seconds on the clock; length of the court pass to Christian Laettner, who catches, spins and shoots - ever.

- Yes, sir: Jack Nicklaus's charge in 1986 at Augusta was unbelievable. We were not avid golfers then (and some folks would say we're not now), but we were glued to the drama that unfolded on that Sunday afternoon.

- Boston and Buckner collapse: Watched this game with our best friend growing up, Brent Rhodes, who was pulling for the Mets. When the Red Sox built that two-run lead in extra innings of Game 6 of the World Series, Brent started swinging a rally towel and said he was not going to stop swinging it until the Mets came back. By the time the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs to complete the Mets' stunning two-out rally, Brent was about to takeoff helicopter style swinging that towel.

- Kirk Gibson's homer in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series: An injured Gibson, who was the NL MVP that year, made the most of his one at-bat in the Series. He hobbled up to the plate and made history, and Jack Buck captured it perfectly with his call, "I don't believe what I just saw."

- 1980 US over Russia in Olympic hockey: Watched this one with the 5-at-10's mom and was enthralled. The moments and magnitude of this event have become more clear in the years since (and what a great movie "Miracle"), but that was a great event. And simply the best announcing call of all-time. "Do you believe in miracles? Yes." Thanks Al Michaels.

U-S-A. U-S-A. U-S-A.

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