This blog will have been going a full year come 1 January 2010 and in the twelve months I have been writing I have wrote over 500 blogs on 15 different sports. You can see a list for yourself on the right and read specifically about them sports by clicking on them. It is no coincidence that my favorite five sports top the list as I suspected they might twelve months after I got the blog rolling, but it has been fun.

It’s been quite a year and recently I have been doing a number of posts on year reviews and decade reviews but I wanted to do another one that looked at some of my personal favorite sporting moments of 2010.

In general the year has been a lot of fun for me in terms of writing about sports and having poor teams that I support to bitch about, but it is them poor teams that have also made 2010 one of the worst years of supporting in my life.

Liverpool started the year top of the Premier League, quickly capitulated to hand the title to Man Utd and then finished the last half of the calendar year dropping like a stone down the table.

The Toronto Blue Jays were awful after a promising start, The Philadelphia Flyers had a solid end to the 08/09 season with a decent playoff run and high hopes were quickly dashed with a terrible finish to the 2010 year. Toronto FC failed to make the playoffs, Ferrari were awful and even my little hometown team Bangor from back in Northern Ireland dropped out of the Irish Premier League.

But I cannot complain too much. I seen some fine events. NHL games, Junior playoff games, lots of Jays games – including Roy Halladay at his best in what turned out to be, sadly, his final year with the Jays, – the Toronto Indy, Motocross at the Rogers Centre and a slew of Toronto FC games in the summer sun.

Oh and the cycling season both personally and on the TV was a lot of fun. So to cap this off, here is a list of my top five sporting moments from the World of Sport:

(And this list does not include Tiger Woods hitting a lamp post and setting off a wild chain of events for this is sports related only).

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I, as always, have watched a lot of sports the past twelve months. I have seen a heck of a lot of good events and some outstanding individual performances. I have seen who has won various end-of-year sports awards and so have decided to make my own picks for athlete of the year, performance of the year, event of the year etc. To begin with though a review of my year in watching sports. Read More»