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Can you believe it's already been ten years since Ian Darke and Steve McManaman had this exchange?

"Balotelli drops...Aguero...he can win it...OHHHH! He's won the title, surely, for Manchester City! An unbelievable finish, two goals in stoppage time! Has the title ever been won more dramatically than that? Who is writing this stuff?"

"OH. MY. GgggOD."

This call was one of many memorable ones for Sergio Aguero's epic 94th minute Premier League title winning goal in 2012. For the writer of this question, the memory of this moment includes an inane Facebook status posted by Bill Simmons immediately afterwards that argues "that has to be the most dramatic ______ moment ever, right?"  Fill in the blank.

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Country Club

Three golfers share the record for the worst single-hole score in PGA Tour history, each carding a 19: Ray Ainsley at the 1938 U.S. Open, and Hans Merrell and Dale Douglass at the same annual pro-am in 1959 and 1963, respectively. Which legendary crooner, an avid golfer himself, lent his name to that pro-am, now played as the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am?

Bing Crosby

Olympics

Triggered by a global conflict, a record 66 countries boycotted the Summer Olympics in what year? The host nation would end up boycotting the subsequent Summer Olympics.

1980