Your sports bucket list

1. British Open
2. Wimbledon
3. Would like to go to Talladega someday, but I may be getting too old if I don't hurry.

 

I'm going to The Masters for a practice round in April. Good enough to cross it off the list.
I want to see Wrigley and Fenway.
An Olympic event
A Super Bowl
An overtime game in the NHL playoffs
A spring training Grapefruit League marathon
A Final Four. I don't care about the title game as much as the Final Four Saturday.
Army/Navy, Harvard/Yale, Alabama/Auburn in Tuscaloosa


I've been able to cross off:
Cameron Indoor for a game while the students are in town (Would still like to see Duke play UNC-CH at Cameron)
The Bristol night race
Talladega

 

I feel exactly the same way Moddy. I got to do just about everything that's been posted on this thread, most of 'em more than once. I was really unhappy and bitter when I was separated from newspaper work. Now I just feel grateful and humbled at having gotten to do it for as long as I did. I had the best seat in the house for an awful lot of big-time sports history.

 

= Army game at Michie (Army-Navy game would be great too)
= All 4 Grand Slam finals in the same year
= USC at Alabama football (if it ever happened); would settle for USC at Georgia or Ole Miss or Death Valley
= Man U vs. Man City
= Kings at Nordiques (oh, wait)
= British Open
= Floor seats for the Lakers at Knicks
= Dodgers at Yankee Stadium and Fenway
= Zamboni driver for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup
= Cricket between the Windies and Pakistan
= Aboard an America's Cup yacht the day it wins

 

Kentucky Derby
Indy 500
Opening Day in Cincinnati
Game at the Rose Bowl
Canadiens home game, with French fluency to match
ACC Tournament before it gets completely ruined
Weekend series at Miss. St. in the Left Field Lounge

 

Calgary Stampede

 

I'd like to see one game at every MLB park. Knocked out about 12 so far.

Game at LSU's Death Valley. I plan to knock this out whenever Mizzou gets the honor of going down there for a whoopin.

Army-Navy. Just awesome.

EPL game.

NHL overtime playoff game

World Cup

Olympic Games

 

The first thing I thought of with this thread are experiences that I wish I had but are lost to history.

Iron Bowl with 50/50 ticket split
Early/middle rounds of single-class Hoosier Hysteria
Game at Boston Garden
Title bout at MSG

 

Super Bowl and World Series game stateside.
Internationally, a World Cup match (preferably the final), Barca vs. Madrid (Messi vs. Ronaldo) and an All Blacks rugby match.
Also the Olympics.

I was able to experience a soccer riot when Barca won the La Liga title in '05 and saw the parade the next day. Very cool. Also saw a cricket match in Australia featuring the Aussies and India, the two best teams in the sport. It was a test series and just a laid back atmosphere. Had some Indian guy explain what the hell was going on. I was shocked they actually had a tea and lunch break during the match.

 

- Late FA Cup or Champions League match at Old Trafford (I've been there and taken the tour, but not on game day).
- U.S. Nationals
- Indy 500
- F1 race (preferably Monaco, Spa, Silverstone, Monza or Hockenheim)
- Tour de France on Alpe d'Huez 2-3 days with the Dutch fans

U.S. Nationals and Indy 500 will happen (assuming nothing happens to me and the world doesn't end in a couple of weeks). The others are truly dreams.

From a participation standpoint, I have a goal of running the Disney Marathon ... if my first marathon doesn't kill me next April.

 

- A bowl game that the Indiana Hoosiers legitimately participate in
- USC at Notre Dame football
- The Final Four, men's basketball
- Soccer in Europe, preferably Italy or England

That's about it.