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Top five
1. Deion Sanders: Sports is about moments and memories. His home run Tuesday night was a fairly unforgettable moment. The great thing about it was that 7,900 Kid Glovers were there to see it. The guess here: A lot of them suddenly became big baseball and Reds fans.
2. Danny Graves: The Baby-faced Assassin has been downright nasty this year. One in 10 batters he faces is getting on base.
3. Thad Matta: Xavier made the right call. He had as many NCAA victories in one season at Butler as Skip Prosser had in seven years as head coach at Xavier.
4. Seattle Mariners: Sweet Lou just keeps cranking out winners, no matter how many Hall of Famers he loses.
5. The Flying Pig: One of the city's feel-good events. It's as much a party as it is a race.
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| Bottom five
1. Portland Trail Blazers: Their first-round flameout and late-season collapse show that chemistry does matter in sports.
2. Twins fans: Jeez, you win a couple of games and you turn into idiots. So much stuff was thrown from the stands at Chuck Knoblauch that the game had to be delayed. That's sad to see. Although it's difficult not to do a smart aleck line about Knoblauch and throwing right now.
3. Dr. Tim Kremchek, aka, Doc Hollywood: The Reds' team medical director loves the spotlight. But it has to be getting a little hot on him in wake of the Ken Griffey Jr. fiasco and Pete Harnisch's problems.
4. The Browns: Nice fifth-round draft choice. If he doesn't beat the robbery rap, you'll have him for the 2009 season.
5. NBA draft declarees: You may not have noticed, but the CBA went out of business. A lot of you guys better learn the phrase: “You want fries with that?” There aren't enough NBA jobs to go around.
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