[Victoria Delsoul]

OK, I will start.

1. Well, this doesn't qualify as a sport story, but it's definitely a strange/funny event... Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction” during the Superbowl halftime show in 2004.

2. Memorable movie romance... Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind... when Rhett grabs and pulls Scarlett in giving her a passionate kiss and carries her upstairs.

3. I have quite a few favorite romantic movie dance scenes, but I will just pick one. Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing... when Baby and Johnny are dancing “I've had the time of my life.” I don't remember who wrote the song, but I know it won an Oscar for best song. Famous quote: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” - Johnny (Patrick Swayze)

[Victoria Delsoul]

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Hi, Victoria! Great intro. I'll have to think about your questions--especially the "taxing" ones.

[HitmanLV]

My strange sport story:

I used to attend several games a season at Yankee stadium when I lived in nyc. I've seen my share of wins and losses, extra inning games and antics in the stands.

Late in the 1993 season, I was still relaxing after taking the NY Bar Exam in July and decided to attend an afternoon game with a friend. The pitcher was Jim Abbott, a MLB player most notable for having only one hand. Jim had beaten the odds by getting into the major leagues and becoming a Yankee!

The Yankees were a couple of games behind Toronto and were hoping to catch them for the division crown. The game was important, but no more notable than any of the other 161 games that season.

Except that was the day that the one handed pitcher made history! He dispatched the first Indian batters handily. Looking good.

Three innings later, the crowd was stirring a bit. People looked over at the scoreboard. Zero hits.

Two innings later the intensity was there. Nobody discussed it in the stands (an oldschool mlb jinx) but we all alluded to it. After the 8th inning of no-hit ball, we went into the 9th inning on the brink of history.

And Jim Abbott did it! One of the few major leauge ballplayers to ever pitch a no hitter, and the only one-handed man to pitch a no hitter! The only no-hitter I attended, too! HISTORY!!! :-)

[ilovew]

Howdy, y'all!

[carlr]

Good evening Victoria.
The most memorable sporting event to me was the 6^th game of the 86 World Series when the ball rolled through Buckners legs (sorry Redsox fans).
Romantic movies and me don`t really exist together so that one is a little difficult.
:)

[buckeyesrule]

****Strange sports stories where you either participated or were a spectator.****

I once scored a basket for the other team in a basketball game in the 6th grade. I came back to score 3 point for us. LOL!

[buckeyesrule]

*** Favorite romantic films.****

I'll pick one I know no one will pick. In "The Winning Team" Ronald Reagan plays the baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander. Alexander has double vision and he tells his wife (Doris Day) that one good thing about his double vision is that now "your twice as pretty". LOL!

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks for the ping, Victoria -- and thanks for posting that Smokey Robinson song "Cruising," too. It's an old favorite!

[Army Air Corps]

Sorry for the delay; I JUST got home.

[Army Air Corps]

1- Strange sports stories where you either participated or were a spectator.

Hmmm, that would be skeet-surfing while doing Tequila shooters...

[rzeznikj at stout]

Well, about three and a half years ago, my high school football team was invited by the worst team in our conference (Pius XI H.S.; team name is the Popes) to play in the Badger Classic at Camp Randall Stadium (home field for the University of Wisconsin)

The game went all right, and in the second half, an injured Pius player was lying at about midfield. Suddenly, the stadium PA announced that "There is an injured Pope lying on the field"

Needless to say, our sideline and the stands behind us erupted in laughter.

By the way, we won the game 32-0.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

Great job Victoria!

Hello everyone!

[nhoward14]

HAPPY EASTER!


1- Hands down winner for me.... Robin Ventura of the Chichago White Sox getting hit by a Nolan ryan curveball. Ventura rushes the mound and Nolan just pummels him in the most Christian way possible. :)

2- Kevin Arnold's and Winnie Cooper's first kiss on "The Wonder Years". I was either 10 or 11 at the time and the same age as the characters, and that's defined romance for me ever since.

3- Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones in "The Mask of Zorro". This is the hottest dance scene I've seen that didn't have the couple strip naked immediately afterwards. :)

[Blackirish]

Tell us about your most memorable tv/movie romances.

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As far as I know I wasn't being filmed!

[DollyCali]

Just got home - after church & dinner decided to skip "clubbing" & nurture my aching back.. and Victoria.. I have two words for this thread:

Wow
&
Awesome!!!!!

Will be back shortly to answer the questions & play a bit.

victoria you did a wonderful job!!!! Thank you. Freepmail a bit later w/ ping list change

[Sir Gawain]

Nice job!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=3158

[Clemenza]

1. Sports Story: Attending the Mets' clinching of the 1986 NL East title, watching my neighbors ROLL DOWN THE NET BEHIND HOME PLATE and rushing the field. I'll never forget the answer a guy gave my father when the latter asked them what they were going to do with the sod they ripped off of the field: "I really don't know. LETS GO METS!"

2. John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in "The Quiet Man."

3. John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gourney in "Saturday Night Fever."

BTW: I turn 30 on Thursday. I feel like I am no longer a "young man." Its depressing, but I can handle it.

[MadIvan]

1- Strange sports stories where you either participated or were a spectator. (Anything that seemed out of the ordinary and made you laugh.)

I managed to turn myself into a mud pie whilst playing in goal last September. The first aid for that was amusing: a can of warm Carlsberg and don't call anyone in the morning.

2- Favorite romantic films. Tell us about your most memorable tv/movie romances, or romantic moments.

Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca. "Here's looking at you, kid."

3- Tell us about your favorite romantic movie dance scene: actors, actress, songs, soundtrack... which particular scene you thought was the best, famous quotes, etc.

Rick and Ilsa didn't do a dance routine. "Time Goes By" is still apropos, however.

Regards, Ivan

[Theresawithanh]

Hello, and Happy Easter to all! Hope you are able to enjoy with family and friends!

My sports story is when I caught a fly ball back in high school PE. I was one of the unathletical kids, last picked, the whole 9, and I was placed waaaay, waaaay out in the field where I couldn't do any damage. So one of the girls on the other team hit a high fly, and I noticed it was coming to me! I stood there, closed my eyes, put my mitt up above my head and caught the ball just as I was knocked to the ground by one of my teammates who was also trying to catch the ball. We still lost miserably, and had to run laps as a team, but that was my "glory" moment.

Now, I just watch sports on TV and go to the occasional A's and Giant's baseball game.