My Top Sports Moments of 2024 List

• Boston Celtics win the NBA title and banner number 18

• U.S Women's Soccer winning Gold against Brazil (2024 Paris Olympics)

• U.S. men's Basketball won Gold in a comeback win against France (2024 Paris Olympics)

• Max Verstappen taking home the Formula 1 Championship

• Freddie Freeman's Walk-off Grand Slam in Game 1 of the World Series

• U.S World Juniors Men's team beating Sweden to take home Gold in the IIHF World Junior Championship

• Katie Ledecky's Olympic record swim in the Women's 1,500m Free and becoming the most decorated female American Olympian of all time, winning four medals in Paris: two Gold, one Silver, one bronze

• UConn Men's Basketball back-to-back National Championships

• Michigan Football won the College Football National Championship against Washington

• A'ja Wilson reaches 1,000 points, becoming the first WNBA player to do it in a season

• U.S. women's Basketball won Gold by one point against France (2024 Paris Olympics)

• Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone World Record in the Women's 400m Hurdles (2024 Paris Olympics)

• The New York Liberty defeated the Minnesota Lynx in Five games to win their first title in Franchise history

• Travis Hunter, Wide receiver/cornerback, won the Heisman Trophy

• Noah Lyle's close win in the Men's 100m

• Simone Bilas won two gold medals in the team all-around and vault final (2024 Paris Olympics)

• Stephen Curry's 36-point performance against Serbia in the Semi-finals (2024 Paris Olympics)

• Caitlin Clark breaking the NCAA women's all-time scoring record

• Cole Hocker, United States Olympic record in the Men's 1,500m

• Lebron James became the first player in NBA history to score 40,000 points

• Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup in seven games against the Edmonton Oilers

• Boston College Men's Hockey beat Quinnipiac 5-4 in Overtime in the semi-finals of the Frozen Four

• Riley Leonard helping Notre Dame to beat Texas A&M 23-13 in their first game of the College Football season (August 31st)

• Josh Allen and the Bills taking down Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs 30-21 (November 17th)

• Jayden Daniel's 52-yard Hail Mary against the Chicago Bears which secured the win for the Commanders (October 27th)

• Late Goals by Bruno Fernandes (Penalty Kick) and Amad Diallo (90th minute) helped Manchester United earn a comeback win over arch-rivals Manchester City 2-1 (December 15th)

• Spain's Comeback win over England in the Euro 2024 Final (July)

• Scottie Scheffler winning Gold in Men's Olympic Golf/ Masters win

• Gabby Thomas won Gold in the Women's 200m final

• Sha'Carri Richardson winning Silver in the Women's 100m final

• France's Leon Marchand won four gold medals in swimming

• Carlos Alcaraz stuns Djokovic to take his second Wimbledon Title

• Novak Djokovic won Gold in the Men's Olympic Tennis final against Carlos Alcaraz

• LA Galaxy Wins MLS Cup 2-1 over the New York Red Bulls

• Alex Morgan retires from Soccer, a two-time World Cup Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, finishing her U.S. Women's national team career with 123 goals, good for fifth all-time, along with 53 career assists, which is ninth all-time in U.S. history. 

• David Pastrnak's Overtime game-winning goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 7 of the first round of the 2024 NHL Playoffs

• Florida Gators football beating LSU 27-16 (November 16th)

• Will Howard and the Ohio State Buckeyes beat Penn State 20-13 (November 2nd)

• Dillion Gabriel and the Oregon Ducks winning the BIG Ten championship over Penn State 45-37 (December 7th)

• # 4 Duke Men's Basketball beating the number two ranked Auburn Tigers 84-78 (December 4th)

• Navy beat Army 31-13 in the annual Army/Navy Game (December 14th)

• Pete Alonso's go-ahead three-run home run in the top of the 9th inning against the Brewers in the National Wild Card Series

• Joey Logano winning the NASCAR Championship

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