"And They're Playing Home Run Derby Early This Year at Fenway Park!"

It's time once again for the Friday Fives. This week, I'm giving you My Top 5 Sporting Events and My Worst 5 Sporting Events ("sporting event" meaning a game I was personally at).

My Top 5 Sporting Events

Honorable mention (tie): Jamie Silva ripping the ball fully out of a Virginia Tech player's hands, 2007 ACC Championship, and Nathan Gerbe's 360 degree spin-o-rama penalty shot against Providence, 2008 Hockey East Quarterfinals
I normally don't/won't do honorable mentions, but these two singular plays were so incredible that they deserved a mention. Silva's "I'll take that, thank you" was probably the most BA play I've ever seen in any sport, and Gerbe's goal was, in a word, unbelievable.

5. BC shutting out Notre Dame 17-0 at Alumni, November 8, 2008
In the middle of what was, at that point, a lackluster year, fighting just to keep our ACC Championship hopes more alive than credible, a 17-0 shutout at home in primetime was quite the morale-booster. However, because it was against our archrivals, it was exponentially sweeter. And to cap it all off, as Jimmy "The Emu" Clausen and Charlie Weis walked ashamedly and hobbled, respectively, off the field, we in the band just kept on playing for a full 10-15 minutes after the game ended. The Superfans all stayed and danced and sang, and it was just a great night to be an Eagles fan.