This was a decade of historical breakthroughs, unprecedented accomplishments, vivid personalities and, perhaps most shocking, legitimate civic and political engagement among the athletes themselves. williamfleitch looks back on the decade in sports
Sam Mewis and Megan Rapinoe during the 2019 Women’s World Cup. Photo: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images At the end of 2009, the New York Times ran a “special report” on the previous ten years in sports, calling it a “decade of disillusion.” The basic notion: Sports were falling apart, with steroids and “misbehaving athletes” and Tiger Woods’s fresh Thanksgiving woes occupying the mind and a “dispiriting trend toward computerized statistical analysis of every twitch.
10. Boston, Boston Everywhere When the Patriots first won the Super Bowl in 2002, and the Red Sox won in 2004, there were people not from Boston who were actually happy for those teams and their fans. None of us will admit it now, but it’s true, I swear. Any memory of empathy and goodwill for the city evaporated this decade, not just because of its six collective titles, but because of how Bostonians reacted to everything. There is no lunatic like the lunatic Boston sports fan.
7. Maybe the Greatest Baseball Player Since Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth Showed Up In 2010, the top prospect in baseball was Jason Heyward. In 2011, it was either Bryce Harper or pitcher Matt Moore. But in 2012, after a short stint in the majors the year before, Mike Trout began his first season and immediately became the best player in the sport by a wide margin.
4. The Jerry Sandusky and Larry Nasser Scandals This decade brought sports’s version of the Catholic abuse scandals, with the public being similarly stunned at just how wide and far sexual abuse could go … and how well it could be hidden. The Sandusky outrage at Penn State brought down the most beloved coach in college sports and revealed how much a community would be willing to tolerate and ignore if it meant its team was winning.
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