My two biggest upsets in sports history

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dinkything said:
Going down via a phantom punch does NOT qualify as a great upset.:rolleyes:;)
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Depends on how much you bet and what odds you got.

No award for style points in boxing.

Speaking of phantoms in sports, what about the 1972 US loss to USSR in Gold Medal game. The first ever US loss in Olymic basketball. A good read for those that were not around or don't remember. Gopher great Jim Brewer was big part of that team.

The silver medals are still in a vault in Switzerland somewhere(I believe) never accepted by the US team.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics
 

The one I disagree with here was Houston over UCLA basketball 1968. UCLA had the big unbeaten string, true, but Houston had maybe 1 loss and was rated #2 and had the 2nd best college player in Elvin Hayes and the game was in Houston, though not on the Cougars home court. Still go check a newspaper at the library and I'll bet UCLA was no more than a 2-3 point fave.

How about Eden Prairie beating #1 Hopkins not once but twice on the same night? Boys and girls, boys at Hopkins no less. Either one is an upset, BOTH is huge.
 

dinkything said:
Going down via a phantom punch does NOT qualify as a great upset.:rolleyes:;)
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The "phantom punch" was in the second Ali/Liston fight. (Which I think was fixed)
The '64 fight ended with Liston not coming out for the 7th round. It was a pretty big upset.
 




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