Left field
The Reuters global sports blog
Sports review 2011 – A memorable year for the wrong reasons
The trouble with putting together a top 10 list of the year’s biggest sports stories is that one person”s number one is another person”s 10.
For those of us lucky enough to spend our time chronicling these events the period before New Year is generally one of reflection where we, like every other sports fan, take stock of what we have seen.
It is a search for the moments that generated a buzz, moments that lingered instead of simply appeared and vanish. Moments that inspired and others too grim and unsettling to be ignored or forgotten.
As 2011 prepares for its final bow, an astonishing number of disturbing events are the first that leap to mind in a year dominated by scandals, lockouts and legal wrangling that overshadowed what took place on the field of play.
