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Best
1. Cal Ripken Jr.: The home run in the All-Star Game showed great players can rise to the occasion on the big stage.
2. Xavier: We applaud the Muskies for killing Midnight Madness. It's gotten to be tired. It was fresh in, say, 1989.
3. Adam Dunn: Just call him up already. Put Dmitri at third, Aaron Boone at second, and Dunn in left. It's simple. It'll sell tickets. By hitting a home run in the Future Stars Game and two in the Triple-A All-Star game, he proved he's ready for the big stage.
4. The Bengals: They signed another free agent defensive lineman last week. Optimism going into camp is high. Are they just setting us up for disappointment? Probably. But at least they're trying.
5. Cris Collinsworth: For coming up with the idea of the Fifth Third/Fox 19 Celebrity Golf Classic, then getting his big-name buddies from Fox to play in it.
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| Worst
1. The Home Run Derby: It has lost its luster. You know an event is bad when ESPN is continually hyping it while it's in progress. And Chris Berman gave us about 50 too many “Back, back, back, back”s.
2. Bud Selig: The commissioner of baseball ought to be able to introduce two of the game's greats — Ripken and Tony Gwynn — without screwing it up. But Bud Light was 2-for-2 in the mess-up department.
3. WNBA All-Star Game: It kind of snuck up on us. We didn't know the season started.
4. The IOC: Here's the state of the International Olympic Committee: The committee suspended but didn't expel a member who is serving a six-year jail sentence for corruption. Nice reign, Juan Antonio Samaranch.
5. BCS: They've adjusted the formula to determine which teams play in the college football “national championship” game. Here's a tip: It's not a national championship if two teams, picked by a computer, are the only teams invited.
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