Seven Wonders of the (Sports) World

It’s official: eight new natural wonders have been added to the World Heritage List.
The U.S. got shut out this year, but the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico and Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Canada finally made the cut.
What does this have to do with sports, you ask?
Well, all this talk about wonders of the world got me thinking, what are the Seven Wonders of the Sporting World?
Here are a few suggestions courtesy the WCBias Heritage List:

• Wrigley Field, Steve Bartman and the Billy Goat. Take your pick, one of those Chicago curses has kept the Cubs from winning the World Series for 100 years now.
• The “Smurf Turf” at Boise State’s Bronco Stadium. That stuff is hideous on TV, but boy does it turn in some memorable performances – like that classic win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, possibly the greatest college football game of our bloggeration.
• The Diesel himself, Shaquille O’Neal, and his hundred nicknames: The Big Aristotle and Hobo Master, Diesel, Shaq Fu, Superman, Big Daddy, Wilt Chamberneazy, Shaq Albert, etc. New nicknames Shaq might have to consider: The Big Divorcee and Sir Hates Kobe A-lot.
• Al Davis. Yep, he’s still kicking. The Man in Black just turned 120, and he’s still drafting like a 12-year-old.
• L.A.’s Big Three: Vin Scully, Bob Miller and the late-Chick Hearn, the greatest trifecta of sports announcers a city will ever see. Gold mics all around.
• That black hole in poor Bill Buckner’s mitt, making the Boston Red Sox first baseman unfairly responsible for the biggest choke job in World Series history.
• Barry Bonds’ head. How does a guy’s hat size increase from 7⅛ to 7¾ anyway? That’s the difference of about an inch in circumference, despite shaving his head later on in his career. Sure makes you wonder.