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The Enemies List: deep inside my passionate sports fans, the joy of winning is long outlived by the pain of losing. For those who keep heroes close and villains closer, we present The Enemies List. (Player Hasting).
The Enemies List began with a simple goal: find out whom sports fans hate and why. We wanted to know who broke fans' hearts and how they did it. What we found is a dog's breakfast of bile and bitterness, a boiling stew of regret and jealousy and rage and broken dreams, cooked in a cauldron of anxiety, fear of failure and fatalism--sort of like the October meeting of the Red Sox Fan Club.
Players get ripped, general managers eviscerated, owners emasculated and opponents belittled. There is animosity for acts of treason (Art Modell, Roger Clemens), for heartbreaking moments (Michael Jordan shooting over Bryon Russell, Craig Ehlo, etc.) and for years of devastation (Yankees, 26 championships; Mariners, Astros, Angels, Expos, Devil Rays, Rangers, Brewers, Padres, Rockies, zero).
Being on The Enemies List can be a badge of honor. A player often is a hero and enemy, depending on who's doing the labeling. That's why Jordan is all over this list. He is an enemy in Detroit, Indiana, Utah, New York and Cleveland and of any fan who thinks rules should be applied equally. Speaking of Cleveland, if John Elway ever showed his face there, surely the Dawg Pound would kidnap him, tie him up and drop him into Lake Erie. Of course, Elway would escape in the last minute and end up 98 yards from shore, arms raised, teeth bucked.
The architects of bad deals were elected to The Enemies List like drunks to Congress. But it's not just bad deals that land owners and general managers on the list. It can be personality, ego, clothing, deviousness ... but enough about Al Davis. Just hate him, baby.
Shaquille O'Neal, the best basketball player on the planet, is one of several athletes who transcend simple reasons for being on The Enemies List. Fans in Orlando are angry that he bailed. Fans in Portland are angry about Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference finals. Fans everywhere else are angry they paid to see Kazaam.
Enemies are easy to find in NASCAR (look for middle fingers). A NASCAR fan's Enemies List can change his shopping list. After Ricky Rudd and Rusty Wallace traded paint last season, Rudd lovers absolutely, positively refused to drink Miller Lite, unless there was nothing else in the fridge. Thank goodness Wallace's sponsor isn't Right Guard.
The Enemies List is all about real hatred, not this made-for-TV animosity brought to you by interleague play. The White Sox will try to hate the Cubs this ...
- This Is No `Enemies List'
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Richard Cohen June 13, 1996 700+ words
...being compared to Richard Nixon's enemies list. This is preposterous. Nixon was a...Bob Dole, who were quick to yell "enemies list" and demand the usual investigation...phone book. In contrast, Nixon's enemies list contained names that were easily identifiable...
- The American Spectator's Enemies List: A Vigilant Journalist's Plea for a...
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Piccoli, Sean April 15, 1996 700+ words
...Start with The American Spectator's Enemies List: A Vigilant Journalist's Plea for...reader submissions to the magazine's "Enemies List" between 1989 and 1993. Thorough and...in the background of more than a few Enemies List missives," he writes. "Hey, dudes...
- Energy Secretary Faces Hill Fire on Consultant; O'Leary Denies She Used Firm to...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Gary Lee November 18, 1995 700+ words
...back accusations that she compiled an enemies list of journalists and lawmakers or used...she used the Carma report to create an enemies list and that she employs more than 500 public...lawmakers said the ranking constituted an enemies list. But the lists were compiled according...
- Daughter: Newman liked being on Nixon enemies list
- Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze Anonymous September 28, 2009 700+ words
...Daughter: Newman liked being on Nixon enemies list Eds: REWRITES through with quotes from...to learn he was on Richard Nixon's enemies list, the Academy Award-winning actor...had turned up on President Nixon's enemies' list. "He was tickled pink and framed it...
- `Enemies List' by Aristide Supporters Poses Big Dilemma for Clinton in Haiti
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Robert Novak April 3, 1995 700+ words
...dilemma for U.S. policy was posed by the appearance of an enemies list compiled by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's supporters...disintegrated. U.S. sources vouched for the authenticity of the enemies list, made available to this column by a member of Haiti's...
- PBS's enemies list. (Public Broadcasting Services's efforts to combat...
- Magazine article from: National Review April 13, 1992 700+ words
...battle." A battle against whom? The memo included a handy "enemies list." Named were seven senators (Dole, Craig, Nickles...which support them. But the conspiracy theory behidn the enemies list reveals a disturbing attitude toward both the responsibilities...
- Voila! The new `enemies' list.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) May 17, 2005 700+ words
...opinions. That long-feared country is now way down the enemies list, virtually tied with France, Saudi Arabia, Syria _ and...president when they rank the axis-of-evil crowd atop their enemies list. There's a companion appreciation for nations that are...
- A 'one-item enemies list'. (Justice Dept. against the National Security Archive)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Pell, Eve December 13, 1986 700+ words
A "ONE-ITEM ENEMIES LIST' The Justice Department can be counted on to continue its battle...Justice Department officials consider Armstrong a "one-item enemies list,' adding that "they seem to see the concept of a repository...
