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DOB: Get my Ring!
Guess who is No. 1...on the top all time bridesmaids list...from ESPN.com
On the bright side, Phil Mickelson shot 68 on Sunday and pocketed $408,000.
On the we're-the-media-and-we'll-poke-holes-in-you-anyway side, Mickelson finished third, still carries the label (you know what it is) and can no longer use the excuse that he's left-handed.
Call us cruel, but we love it when who doesn't win is more interesting than who does win. Thus, our list of sports' top 10 bridesmaids ...
1. Buffalo Bills
Back-to-back-to-back-to-back Super Bowl defeats. That's not a bridesmaid; that's being left at the altar for the cable guy.
2. Phil Mickelson
He's won 21 PGA Tour event, has finished third at the Masters three straight years (hey, that's a higher average than Tiger!) and has 16 top-10 finishes in majors ... but no wins.
3. Alydar
Affirmed and Alydar staged the greatest Triple Crown duel of all time in 1978 ... unfortunately for Alydar, he lost all three races, by a combined total of less than two lengths (he lost by a neck in the Preakness and by a photo finish in the Belmont).
They've done it all ... except win it all.
4. Stockton and Malone
The Jazz have made the playoffs every season since John Stockon and Karl Malone joined forced in 1986 -- that's an amazing 18-season run for two guys more linked together than Chang and Eng. Alas, they've made the NBA Finals just twice and lost both times.
5. Minnesota Vikings
Before there were the Bills, there were the purple-clad Vikings, who reached four Super Bowls in eight years in the '70s and played like Barney each time instead of like Purple People Eaters. Minnesota scored just 34 points in its four losses.
6. Houston Cougars
In the early '80s, Akeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler led Phi Slamma Jamma to three straight Final Four appearances but Houston lost in the semis in '82 and in the title game in '83 (to upset special N.C. State) and '84 (to Patrick Ewing's Georgetown squad).
7. Roy Williams
In 15 years at Kansas, Williams has won over 80 percent of his games, won at least 23 games each season since his first year, made three Final Four trips, finished in the top 5 rankings seven times ...
8. Bo Schembechler
The former Michigan football coach had one problem: mainly, he would get his butt whipped by the Pac-10 in the Rose Bowl. Schembechler had two or fewer losses in 14 of his 21 seasons and once had 10 straight top-10 finishes, but never finished No. 1 in the polls.
9. Juan Marichal
The Giants ace reeled off consecutive seasons in wins of 25, 21, 22, 25, 14, 26 and 21 ... and never won a Cy Young Award. The Giants -- despite a team stacked with five future Hall of Famers (Marichal, Mays, McCovey, Perry and Cepeda) -- never finished first any of those years, either.
10. ????
The choice is YOURS. Tell us who it should be!
On the bright side, Phil Mickelson shot 68 on Sunday and pocketed $408,000.
On the we're-the-media-and-we'll-poke-holes-in-you-anyway side, Mickelson finished third, still carries the label (you know what it is) and can no longer use the excuse that he's left-handed.
Call us cruel, but we love it when who doesn't win is more interesting than who does win. Thus, our list of sports' top 10 bridesmaids ...
1. Buffalo Bills
Back-to-back-to-back-to-back Super Bowl defeats. That's not a bridesmaid; that's being left at the altar for the cable guy.
2. Phil Mickelson
He's won 21 PGA Tour event, has finished third at the Masters three straight years (hey, that's a higher average than Tiger!) and has 16 top-10 finishes in majors ... but no wins.
3. Alydar
Affirmed and Alydar staged the greatest Triple Crown duel of all time in 1978 ... unfortunately for Alydar, he lost all three races, by a combined total of less than two lengths (he lost by a neck in the Preakness and by a photo finish in the Belmont).
They've done it all ... except win it all.
4. Stockton and Malone
The Jazz have made the playoffs every season since John Stockon and Karl Malone joined forced in 1986 -- that's an amazing 18-season run for two guys more linked together than Chang and Eng. Alas, they've made the NBA Finals just twice and lost both times.
5. Minnesota Vikings
Before there were the Bills, there were the purple-clad Vikings, who reached four Super Bowls in eight years in the '70s and played like Barney each time instead of like Purple People Eaters. Minnesota scored just 34 points in its four losses.
6. Houston Cougars
In the early '80s, Akeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler led Phi Slamma Jamma to three straight Final Four appearances but Houston lost in the semis in '82 and in the title game in '83 (to upset special N.C. State) and '84 (to Patrick Ewing's Georgetown squad).
7. Roy Williams
In 15 years at Kansas, Williams has won over 80 percent of his games, won at least 23 games each season since his first year, made three Final Four trips, finished in the top 5 rankings seven times ...
8. Bo Schembechler
The former Michigan football coach had one problem: mainly, he would get his butt whipped by the Pac-10 in the Rose Bowl. Schembechler had two or fewer losses in 14 of his 21 seasons and once had 10 straight top-10 finishes, but never finished No. 1 in the polls.
9. Juan Marichal
The Giants ace reeled off consecutive seasons in wins of 25, 21, 22, 25, 14, 26 and 21 ... and never won a Cy Young Award. The Giants -- despite a team stacked with five future Hall of Famers (Marichal, Mays, McCovey, Perry and Cepeda) -- never finished first any of those years, either.
10. ????
The choice is YOURS. Tell us who it should be!
