For the third consecutive year, the proposedAll American Football League, originally intended to launch in 2008, delays its planned debut, this time until 2011.
The new incarnation of theArena Football League, consisting mostly of teams from the now-dissolvedAF2, makes its debut. Although the new AFL is a separate corporate entity from the original AFL, it purchased the assets of the original league in a bankruptcy auction, enabling it to brand itself as a continuation of the original.
August–September:New Meadowlands Stadium, the new home of theNew York Giants andJets, opened on August 16 with a pre-season game between the two teams, with the Jets as the designated home team. The Giants won this matchup 31–16. After winning a coin flip between the two teams, the Giants played the first regular-season game in the stadium on September 12, defeating theCarolina Panthers 31–18. The Jets played theBaltimore Ravens in their home opener the following night onMonday Night Football, losing 10–9.
Reggie Bush, currently with the Saints, announced that he would forfeit his2005Heisman Trophy after his involvement with marketing agents while playing atUSC led to severeNCAA penalties against the school. USC had already returned its copy of Bush's Heisman and the football program cut ties with Bush.[1]
4–152010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The total aquatics medal table was won by Russia with 13 gold medals, 7 silver, 8 bronze. Germany was second in the total medal table with 8 gold, 9 silver, 3 bronze. France was third with 8 gold, 8 silver and 7 bronze. The swimming medal table had slightly different order. Russia was second, France first and Great Britain third. France got 8 gold medals, 7 silver, 6 bronze. Russia got 7 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze. Great Britain got 6 gold, 6 silver and 6 bronze. Diving medal table was totally different: Germany was first, Ukraine second and Italy third. Germany got 5 gold, 3 silver, but no bronze. Ukraine got 2 gold, 2 silver and 0 bronze. Italy got 1 gold, two silver, but no bronze for Italy either. Synchronized Swimming medal table had only three countries. Russia was first, Ukraine second and Spain third. Italy won the open water medal table, Greece was second and Germany third. Water Polo Championships were held separately.
25–282010 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Germany won the medal table with 10 gold, 8 silver, 4 bronze. Host country Netherlands was second with 9 gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze. Hungary was third with 6 gold, 1 silver and two bronze.
15-192010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. United States was the winner of the medal table with 12 golf medals, 6 silver and 7 bronze. Second in the medal table was Russia with 4 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals. Spain was third with 4 gold medals, two silver and two bronze.
25th –2010 AFL Grand Final –Collingwood drew withSt Kilda in the first Grand Final, 9.14 (68) – 10.8 (68). Collingwood won the replay by 56 points on October 2, 16.12 (108) – 7.10 (52). It was the first drawn AFL Grand Final since1977.
2nd –Ron Santo former 3rd baseman of theChicago Cubs dies due to complications from bladder cancer and diabetes in aScottsdale, Arizona hospital.
LegendaryMilwaukee Brewers baseball announcer and formerMilwaukee Braves catcherBob Uecker, who played on the Braves during the1957 World Series in which the Braves won, undergoes two successful heart surgeries, one during the baseball season, and one following it, and gets inducted into theWWE Hall of Fame.
March 13 –Manny Pacquiao defeats Joshua Clottey by controlling the fight from start to finish, leading to Pacquiao winning by a unanimous decision. The fight was the first boxing match held atCowboys Stadium inArlington, Texas in front of over 41,000 people. This was Pacquiao's first defense of his newly awardedWBO welterweight title.
March 20 –Wladimir Klitschko knocks outEddie Chambers with a fierce left that hits Chambers in the temple with only five seconds left in the fight. The punch knocked Chambers out nearly instantly, with him collapsing to the canvas and hanging off the last rope. This was Klitschko's first defense of hisRing magazine heavyweight title, his fourth defense of hisWBO heavyweight title, and his eighth defense of hisIBF andIBO heavyweight titles.
March 27 –Pongsaklek Wonjongkam defeatsKōki Kameda by a majority decision to win theWBC flyweight title and vacantRing magazine flyweight title. This is the second time Wonjongkam has become theWBC flyweight champion, after first winning the title in March 2001. Wonjongkam defended the title seventeen times, until he lost toDaisuke Naito in July 2007. This fight is later named the best flyweight fight of 2010 byRing magazine.
April 17 –Kelly Pavlikloses toSergio Martínez in a close fight for Pavlik'sWBC,WBO, andRing magazine middleweight titles. Martínez controlled the early rounds with quick in and out movements, refusing to heavily engage with Pavlik. Martínez managed to cut Pavlik's left eyebrow in the first round. Pavlik then started to mount a comeback in the middle rounds by blocking Martínez's punches more effectively. Pavlik spent most of his time headhunting trying to land a hard right, which did help Pavlik get a knockdown in the seventh round. In the late rounds Martínez came back and started to open up Pavlik's cuts more, making his face extremely blood. In the post fight interview Pavlik said he couldn't see due to the blood. Martínez ended up winning the fight with a unanimous decision.
April 24 –Mikkel KesslerupsetsCarl Froch by a unanimous decision to win Froch'sWBC super middleweight title. The fight was part of the second-group stage of theSuper Six World Boxing Classic. Following the fight, Froch complained about a judging bias, seeing how the fight was held in Kessler's country of origin, Denmark. This fight was later named the best super middleweight fight of 2010 byRing magazine.
April 30 – In a stunning upset,Fernando Montiel knocksoutHozumi Hasegawa ending his five-year, 10 title defense streak and taking hisWBC bantamweight title. The knockout came as a surprise due to Hasegawa seeming to be clearly leading until the end of the fourth, when Montiel landed a left punch that stunned Hasegawa and pushed him back to the ropes, where he unloaded on him until the referee stopped the fight.
May 1 –Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Shane Mosley to continue his undefeated career streak. Mosley came out strong for the first two rounds—at one point making Mayweather's knees buckle—but Mayweather went on to control the fight.
May 8 – Making his comeback after roughly 15½ months of being suspended,Antonio Margarito defeated Roberto Garcia to win the vacantWBC international super welterweight title.
May 15 –Amir Khan dominatesPaul Malignaggi to win by TKO in the eleventh round to retain hisWBA light welterweight title for the second time. This was Khan's debut in the United States.
June 5 –Miguel Cotto defeats Yuri Foreman by a ninth round stoppage due to a leg injury Foreman suffered during the fight. In an amazing display of will, Foreman refused to quit despite being in what he later called a "very sharp pain". A towel was thrown in the ring, but it was ruled to have come from an outside source, and the fight continued for another minute until being stopped officially. This was Cotto's debut atlight middleweight. The fight was the first boxing match in the newYankee stadium built in 2009, and the first match in either Yankee stadium since Ali/Norton 3 in 1976.
August 14 –Jean PascalupsetsChad Dawson by atechnical decision due to an accidental headbutt that caused a major cut over Dawson's right eye and the fight was stopped by the ringside doctor. However Pascal easily won the fight according to the judge's scorecards. Pascal defended hisWBC light heavyweight title for the third time, won Dawson'sIBO light heavyweight title, and filled the vacantRing magazine light heavyweight title.
August 28 –Giovanni Segura upsetsIván Calderón by a knockout in the eighth round to win theWBO andWBA super world light flyweight titles. Segura ends Calderón's undefeated 34-fight winning record. This fight would later be named both the best light flyweight and overallfight of the year of 2010 byRing magazine.
September 11 –Yuriorkis Gamboa defeatsOrlando Salido to unified theWBA world and vacantIBF featherweight titles. Gamboa was knocked down in the eighth round and was docked two points in the twelfth round. While Salido was knocked down twice in the twelfth round.
November 6 –Juan Manuel López defeats Rafael Márquez by TKO, in an exciting fight that was stopped early due to Márquez suffering a shoulder injury following the eighth round. López defends hisWBO featherweight title and improves his record to 30–0. This fight is later named the best featherweight fight of 2010 byRing magazine.
November 13 –Manny Pacquiao destroys Antonio Margarito to theWBC super welterweight title, making Pacquiao the first and so far only boxer to win world titles ineight different weight classes. Following the fight, Margarito is sent to a hospital with a fracturedorbital bone, which requires surgery. This was Margarito's first major fight in over 21 months, following a knockout loss toShane Mosley in January 2009.
November 27 –Juan Manuel Márquez defeats Michael Katsidis by ninth-round TKO. Katsidis was competitive throughout the fight and even scored a knockdown on Márquez in the third round. While Márquez fought a more solid fight, landing many combinations. Márquez defends hisWBO,WBA, andRing magazine lightweight titles. This fight is later named the best lightweight fight of 2010 byRing magazine.
December 11 –Amir Khan defeats Marcos Maidana in a relatively close decision. Khan came out strong in the early part of the fight, by applying heavy pressure on Maidana and getting a knockdown late in the first round. However, in the later parts of the fight Khan spent much of his time avoiding Maidana trying to endure through rounds. At one point Maidana appeared to have almost finished Khan in the tenth round, when he landed a huge punch. However Khan absorbed the punishment and did enough in the early rounds to win by a unanimous decision. Khan defended hisWBA world light welterweight title for the third time. This fight is later named the best light welterweight fight of 2010 byRing magazine.
December 11 –Abner Mares defeatsVic Darchinyan by a spit decision, to startShowtime's second boxing tournament based on theSuper Six World Boxing Classic. However instead featured only four fighters, a single elimination format, and was focused on thebantamweight division at 118 lbs (54 kg) under the title,The Bantamweight Tournament: Winner Takes All. This fight was later named the best bantamweight fight of 2010 byRing magazine.
March 20Milan–San RemoÓscar Freire wins first monument of the year over Tom Boonen in predicted sprint finish.
April 4Tour of FlandersFabian Cancellara defeats home favourite Tom Boonen as 1 million people line the streets of Northern Belgium for the Unesco heritage race, famous for its culture, beautiful forests and brutal cobbled hills. Cancellara attacked first on the Molenberg with 44 km to go and Boonen was the only one who could follow. With 15 km to go Cancellara launched a powerful attack on the Muur-Kapelmuur using the last metres of the hill and descent to create a big gap. Once the gap was created, the world tt champion was always favourite and had time to celebrate.
April 11Paris–RoubaixFabian Cancellara launched a surprising attack with over 45 km to go while Boonen was taking a drink behind. The Swiss, nicknamed Spartacus, showed incredible strength to stretch out the gap to over 4 minutes over the rest, before relaxing in the final kilometres to celebrate becoming one of the few people to achieve the Flanders Roubaix double in the same week.
April 24Liège–Bastogne–LiègeAlexander Vinokourov came out victorious overAlexander Kolobnev with whom he worked to set up a 2-man finish. Vino attacked with 15 km to go, with many teams hesitant to bring him back, as drag Vinos teammateAlberto Contador, would then attack. With 9 km to go an elite group behind formed and home favouritePhilippe Gilbert launched an all or nothing attack. Gilbert halved the 40 second deficit, but Vino and Kolobnev used their 2-man advantage to tire him out and ultimately contested the finish among themselves with Vino riding away to celebrate a successful comeback at the age of 36.
May 8–30Giro d'ItaliaIvan Basso won what was considered to be one of the greatestGrand Tours of all time. With surprisingly exciting stages in the first week, including crashes in the Netherlands a ttt and a tough stage through the mud of Strade Bianchi, the race was blown apart on stage 12 when a group of 30 riders, including climbers David Arroyo and Carlos Sastre got a 12-minute lead. This forced the other contenders to push hard in the very difficult mountains of the 3rd week.Cadel Evans Michelle ScarponiVincenzo Nibali and Basso took minutes over the leaders on 3 mountain stages, one of which was a mountain finish on theMonte Zoncolan, the hardest mountain in Grand Tour history, lined by hundreds of thousands of fans. The race came down to a difficult stage over the extremely difficult Passo di Mortirolo with a finish in Aprica. Basso needed 3 minutes to take the jersey from Arroyo, and looked likely to get it after taking 2 minutes on the ascent of the climb. But Arroyo surprised the world of cycling with an amazing descent of the mountain in very dangerous conditions, taking back 1 minute 30. The final twist came with the final climb into Aprica, were Basso, helped by teammate Nibali, and stage winner Scarponi, was able to take 3 minutes on Arroyo, gaining the jersey and a 2nd Giro win.
July 3–25Tour de FranceAlberto Contador won his 3rd Tour de France and 5th Grand Tour after a close duel with young LuxembourgerAndy Schleck. The two were always comfortable, and close to each other, but the onus was on Schleck who was considered to be a far weaker time trial cyclist. Going into the stage on theCol du Tourmalet Schleck needed to get a gap over Contador, but, although he won the stage, Contador finished just behind Schleck and won the Tour on the time trial two days later.
August 28–19Vuelta a EspañaVincenzo Nibali won his first Grand Tour after putting in a surprisingly strong performance on the decisive stage. The strong favourite at the halfway point had beenIgor Antón but theEuskaltel–Euskadi rider had an unfortunate crash and was forced to abandon. This left the Italian to fight it out with Galician climberEzequiel Mosquera. Mosquera got time in several mountain stages, and needed 40 seconds on the final stage over the very steep Bola del Mundo. Huge crowds cheered on Mosquera as he attacked with 3 km and he was able to initially get 20 seconds. But Nibali came back and caught Mosquera in the last few metres, and though he was unable to overtake the Spaniard for the stage win, he was the overall winner.
September 29–October 3UCI Road World ChampionshipsWomen's Time trial –Emma Pooley.Men's Time Trial –Fabian Cancellara. Women's Road Race –Giorgia Bronzini.Men's Road Race –Thor Hushovd won an epic race which looked to finish in anything but a sprint finish, until the last few kilometres. Several groups kept forming in attacks that looked likely to succeed, but ultimately always got brought back. Favourite Philippe Gilbert expected attack finally came on the 1st climb of the last lap. But as he was caught by a 2nd group, the peloton surprisingly appeared just behind them with 3 k to go and a sprint finish it turned out to be.
October 17Giro di Lombardia – Philippe Gilbert made up for his failure at the worlds with a 2nd victory in the final monument of the season. The Belgian was simply too strong throughout and never looked like losing. After a crash took out Nibali, Gilbert was left on his own, and waited forMichele Scarponi for support. But the Italian, who is superior in Grand Tours, was out of his depth contesting a one-day race against the classic specialist, who waltzed away with ease in the last few kilometres.
February 16–28:Canada wins gold,United States wins silver, andFinland wins bronze at themen's tournament of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
January 29 – October 2 –Super League XV was held in England, Wales and France.Wigan Warriors defeatedSt. Helens 22–10 in theGrand Final for their second title. This was also St Helens' fourth consecutive Grand Final defeat.
April 22 – TheMelbourne Storm Storm are stripped of their 2007 and 2009 premierships and 2006–2008 minor premierships, fined $1.689 million, deducted all eight premiership points for the 2010 season and barred from receiving premiership points for the rest of the season by the National Rugby League after beingfound guilty of long-term gross salary cap breaches.
The first round of the Gentlemen's Singles features thelongest match in tennis history. In a match that lasted 11 hours, 5 minutes over three days, AmericanJohn Isnerdefeats France'sNicolas Mahut 6–4, 3–6, 6–7(7), 7–6(3), 70–68. The final set alone was longer in both games and time than the previous longest match.
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Super Bowl XLIV.Winner:
New Orleans Saints.
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2010 Winter Olympics.Winner:
London Marathon.Winners:
Tsegaye Kebede,
Liliya Shobukhova
Los Angeles Lakers.
2010 FIFA World Cup.Winner:
Spain.
2010 FIBA World Championship.Winner:
2010 FIBA World Championship for Women.Winner:
2010 Singapore Grand Prix.Winner:
Berlin Marathon.Winners:
Patrick Makau,
2010 Commonwealth Games,Delhi,India.Winner:Australia
2010 Korean Grand Prix.Winner:
2010 Asian Games,Guangzhou,China.Winner:
Egypt
Lithuania. MVP:Kevin Durant (USA)
Finland
Fiji
Cook Islands
New Zealand
Jamaica
Australia
England
France who complete theGrand Slam.
Italy.
Samoa win theEdinburgh Sevens and secure their firstIRB Sevens World Series season crown.
Celtic League –Ospreys
PGE Skra Bełchatów. MVP:
Osmany Juantorena (CUB)
Oneida González (VEN), Final Series MVP:
Argentina and
Puerto Rico. MVP:
Serbia,
Bulgaria and
Portugal,
Brazil,
Dominican Republic,
Peru and
Mexico. MVP:
Costa Rica. MVP:
Japan. MVP:
Iran and
Kazakhstan.