2004 Sports: The Year That Belonged To Boston
This article offers a snapshot of 2004 sports, a year that belonged to Boston, with a World Series title that was historic and a Super Bowl triumph that was dynastic.
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2004 College Football: The Massacre In Miami
The 2004 college football season was marked by two teams that opened the year determined to find vindication, for very different reasons. The USC Trojans and Oklahoma Sooners opened the season 1-2 in the polls, finished it the same way and built to a championship conclusion in Miam
Lightning Strike: The 2004 Tampa Bay Lightning Hoist The Stanley Cup
The city of Tampa Bay might not be the one that pops to your mind when you think of hockey, or of producing a truly outstanding Stanley Cup champion. That’s what the 2004 Tampa Bay Lightning were though, as the produced a great regular season and validated with a run to a championship, culminating in two consecutive seven-game series.
The 2004 Detroit Pistons: Champions Without A Star
You normally don’t think of a team that enters the postseason as a #2 seed in its bracket as a real dark horse. But in the NBA, when you lack a marquee superstar and have to follow a path that leads you through the two-time defending conference champions and two series without homecourt advantage, a dark horse is exactly what you are. That’s the path the 2004 Detroit Pistons rode to a championship.
The 2004 National League Championship Series: An Underrated Epic
When you think of the 2004 baseball season, especially its postseason, what usually comes to mind is the historic comeback the Boston Red Sox put on against the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series, en route to Boston’s first World Series title in 86 years. What’s often overshadowed is what an epic battle took place on the National League side that same year. Let’s look back on the 2004 National League Championship Series, as the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros stretched it to the limit.
2003 Sports: Pre-Championship Drama
This article offers a snapshot of 2003 sports, a year that saw the biggest thrills in the playoff rounds prior to the championship battle.
2002 Sports: The Rally Monkey & A Dispute In The Desert
This article offers a snapshot of 2002 sports, a year that saw dramatic finishes to the World Series, and to a national championship battle in the Fiesta Bowl.
2003 NFL Playoffs: Division Round Dynamite
The four games of the second round, played over the second weekend in January, produced two overtime games, another that came down to the last possession and even the “worst” of the four games produced the most points and a game competitive in the fourth quarter.
We’ll go over the teams involved, and then look at how the games broke down…
2003 MLB Playoffs: Division Series Dynamite
The 2003 MLB playoffs are remembered for some epic moments–the drama of the League Championship with Aaron Boone, Steve Bartman and the heartbreaks suffered by the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs. Or the surprise World Series, where the young Florida Marlins behind 23-year-old Josh Beckett upset the New York Yankees. What we shouldn’t overlook is that 2003 was also the year the Division Series provided constant drama. Here’s a look back on the eight teams that gave us those thrills and the big moments in each series.
The 2002 World Series: Wild All The Way To The End
The 2002 World Series is marked in history by two things. Two wild-cards, the Anaheim Angels and San Francisco Giants, faced off in the Fall Classic. This is the only instance of a wild-card showdown in either the World Series or the Super Bowl as of 2013. The other historical benchmark is more basic–the Angels and Giants turned in a classic seven-game showdown replete with heartbreak, a dramatic comeback and a rally cheer that proved prophetic.
The Epic Miami-Ohio State Fiesta Bowl Battle
The 2002 college football season built to an epic conclusion, as the Miami Hurricanes looked to seal a repeat title and the latest installment of their dynastic run that had begun back in 1983. And though it’s hard to imagine the Ohio State Buckeyes in the role of plucky underdog, that’s what they were in 2002. These two teams played a Fiesta Bowl for the ages that decided the national championship.
2001 Sports: In The Aftermath Of 9/11
The year 2001 in the United States was marred by the most tragic event in the history of our nation, the terrorist attacks of September 11. It was perhaps appropriate that the two best moments of what was a good year in 2001 sports, had some sort of linkage to that awful day.