To kick off the Top Ten for 2006, the Daily decided to play Nostradamus and predict the big headlines in sports for the coming year. These predictions are so good even Pete Rose would bet on them. Swami says...
10) In a stunning series of events, Canada wins the first ever baseball World Classic.
9) Danny Ainge and Isiah Thomas leave respective GM positions and win the 2008 presidential election. Their first move: trading New York City for Luxemburg.
8) In a bold move, Bode Miller trades in his downhill skies for ice skates and invents the new Olympic sport of the two-footed luge. While drunk.
7) After completely falling off the ratings radar, the NHL decides to pull out all the stops, introducing scantily-clad Norwegian cheerleaders on skates and intermission zamboni races.
6) Peyton Manning retires after losing in the playoffs (again), grows a beard, and joins Ricky Williams as a sherpa in Tibet.
5) Final Winter Olympics medal count: Russia - 21, Norway - 24, and in a surprising first place - Cameroon, with 37.
4) Kobe Bryant, in an effort to break at least one of Wilt Chamberlain's records, heads back to Eagle, Colorado.
3) The NHL dethrones the NFL and NASCAR as the most popular sport in the country.
2) After finishing fourth in the fall Director's Cup standings, Tufts finishes third overall, behind Connecticut College and Hamilton. Williams, Amherst and Middlebury finish tied for a distant 53rd.
1) Johnny Damon, following his Triple Crown season and winning the World Series MVP in his first season as a Yankee, drowns when he realizes (too late) he can't walk on water.
-Andrew Bauld, Kristy Cunningham and Liz Hoffman
