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What: “2001 ESPN Sports Almanac”
Editors: Gerry Brown and Michael Morrison
Publisher: Hyperion/ESPN Books
Price: $12.99
OK, sports nuts, here are 960 pages just for you. Millions of facts, thousands of graphics and tables and hundreds of photographs. Plus essays and analyses from such ESPN personalities as Dan Patrick, Linda Cohn and Stuart Scott. Patrick and Cohn look back at the top 10 personalities of 2000, Scott and fellow anchor John Anderson look at the top 20 moments.
Patrick picked 10 personalities, as did Cohn. Dennis Miller made Patrick’s list. An excerpt:
“By Week 8 of the 2000 season, the criticism had died down. Dennis Miller was not ruining ‘Monday Night Football.’ What a relief! I think, though, that the early rips he took may make Miller think twice about coming back to the booth.”
Pedro Martinez was No. 1 on Patrick’s list; Kurt Warner topped Cohn’s.
Scott’s top moments were the Rams winning the Super Bowl, Michigan State winning the NCAA basketball tournament, the Lakers winning the NBA championship, and Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Open by 15 strokes. Next on his list was Woods’ approach shot out of a sand trap from 160 yards on the 18th hole of the NEC Invitational.
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