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Thursday, February 21, 2002
Updated: August 10, 1:52 PM ET
Readers: Lists you'd like to see

From the Page 2 mailbag

We asked for your help, and more than 500 of you came through with suggestions for future Page 2 lists. Needless to say, there was a lot of overlap, and some of you suggested lists Page 2 has already done. Tsk, tsk. But we forgive you, because we are good and kind and fair.

OUR TOP 10

Here's how Page 2 editors ranked our 10 favorite lists from the past year:

1. Irritating Thing at Sporting Events That Must Stop ... Immediately
2. Worst Call in Sports History
3. Best Moment in a Baseball Movie
4. Active Athlete Who Should Hang It Up
5. Coolest Athlete Ever
6. Worst Current Owner
7. Best Feud Ever
8. Least Likeable Football Player Ever
9. Greatest Sports Wife of All-Time
10. Best Nickname

We've picked our 10 favorites, along with a few alternates, and we will use most -- and possibly all -- of these in future weeks. Vote in the poll at the right for your top choice.

1. Sports phrases that most need to be stricken from the language

"Guys stepping up"

"Guys making plays"

"Much-maligned secondary"

"Play within ourselves" (What's the alternative? Play without ourselves? Play outside of ourselves?)

Anything that comes out of Bill Walton's mouth

Referring to athletes in the plural à ;a Joe Theismann: "When you talk about the elite quarterbacks, you talk about the Brett Favres, the Kurt Warners ..." (Peter Gammons has an interesting version of this, in that he always throws in someone who blatantly doesn't belong: "They need a big bat, like a Jason Giambi, or an Alex Rodriguez, or a Rey Ordoñez.")
Jeffrey Staggs
Baltimore

2. Funniest athletes of all-time
John
St. Louis

3. Worst uniforms ever
Rosie A.
Columbus, Ohio

3a. Best uniforms ever
Rosie A.
Columbus, Ohio

4. Toughest franchises to be a fan of
Red Sox, Cubs, Clippers, Vikings all make my list.
Matt Leveille
South Hadley, Mass.

5. Best teams not to win a championship
Dave Craig
Vancouver

6. Best performances by an athlete or coach in a commercial
Joe McCann
Leawood, Kan.

7. Best announcers' calls
The phaze
Oakland

8. Strangest sports superstitions or rituals
Wade Boggs eating only chicken. Harold Miner touching things with his nose.
Rich
San Francisco

9. Biggest scandals in sports history
Skategate, Blacksox, Tonya/Nancy, Roy Jones Jr.
David
Metairie, La.

10. Best sports video games ever
Stephen Dahl
Dayton, N.J.

Also receiving votes

Greatest one-shot wonders

Greatest dynasties

Most heart-breaking losses

Most touching tear-jerk moments

Greatest all-around athletes of all-time

Best sports colloquialisms

Biggest chokes