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When I was in Chicago last week visiting family, my uncle happened to bring up an interesting point to me: If you could attend any sporting event in the world, what would it be?

Naturally, my first response was, "Game 7 of the World Series." But then I got to thinking; would going to Game 7 of, like, a Rangers-Marlins World Series be as fun or special as going to, say, a Notre Dame-USC football game in South Bend? Or a Red Sox-Yankees playoff game at Fenway? No way. So after giving this some serious thought, I've decided to make top-five lists of "What game would you like to see most?" for every sport, as well as an overall top five at the end, while adding a "number 1,000,000" to describe which game I would least like to see from each sport. Lists are great, aren't they? So without further ado:

PRO BASKETBALL
1. Game 7 of a Blazers-Lakers playoff series at the Rose Garden.
2. Game 7 of a Lakers-Celtics playoff series at Staples.
3. A regular-season Blazers-Lakers game at the Rose Garden.
4. A Knicks-Warriors game at Oracle Arena. (Why? Because I hate the Knicks, like the Warriors, and the two teams might combine for 400 points, that's why.)
5. Any game involving Lebron James.
1,000,000. Any game involving the L.A. Clippers.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL
1. The National Championship Game.
2. A Duke-UNC game at UNC.
3. A UCLA-USC game at UCLA.
4. A first-round game featuring a week 12 seed and a "gutty" 5 seed.
5. A Final Four Game.
1,000,000. Probably one of those Division III games you see on Youtube where there are like 12 fans in the stands, all of them parents of the players. Feel the excitement!

PRO FOOTBALL
1. The Super Bowl.
2. A playoff game at Lambeau Field.
3. A Packers-Vikings game at Lambeau Field.
4. A Patriots-Colts game at Gillette Stadium.
5. An Eagles-Cowboys game at Lincoln Field.
1,000,000. A Seahawks game. Honestly, I've lived in the Pacific Northwest my whole life and I've never once had the urge to attend a Hawks game. Even when they played in the Super Bowl, I literally could not have cared less. I'd honestly rather go watch one of my old high school's football games than a Seahawks game.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
1. A Notre Dame-USC game at Notre Dame Stadium.
2. A UCLA-USC game at the Rose Bowl. (Preferably if neither team was an overwhelming favorite, but whatever.)
3. An Ohio State-Michigan game at Ohio State.
4. The National Championship Game.
5. Any non-USC game at Notre Dame Stadium.
1,000,000. A Duke-North Carolina game. The 1,000 fans who attend that game are probably only there in hopes that Roy Williams or Christian Laettner will make a cameo.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
1. A potential World Series-clinching game for the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
2. A potential pennant-clinching game for the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
3. A potential pennant-clinching game for the Cubs at Wrigley Field. (As long as the Dodgers aren't involved.)
4. A Red Sox-Yankees playoff game at Fenway.
5. A Red Sox-Yankees regular-season game at Fenway.
1,000,000. A Pirates-Nationals game, at least until 2011 when the Nationals have Cy Young (Stephen Strasburg) and Babe Ruth (Bryce Harper) playing for them; then it'll just be any Pirates game.

OLYMPICS
1. The Gold Medal game for basketball.
2. The 100-meter dash.
3. The 200-meter dash.
4. A swimming event in which an American has a chance to break Michael Phelps' gold medal record.
5. A swimming event in which an American has a chance to beat some Euro dude who was talking shit before the race.
1,000,000. A tie between men's figure skating and men's gymnastics. Who does watch either of those?

MISCELLANEOUS (Yeah, I'm sorry; I don't like soccer, hockey, tennis, college baseball, or any other sport enough to make a full top 5 list. My apologies.)
1. Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
2. The FIFA World Cup Finals.
3. A Rafael Nadal-Roger Federer tennis match.
4. A boxing match featuring Floyd Mayweather.
5. The Kentucky Derby.
1,000,000. The World Championship of darts. Yep, I can't believe it's a "sport" either, but there you go.

And now, the overall top five:

1. A potential World Series-clinching game for the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
2. A potential pennant-clinching game for the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
3. A Notre Dame-USC football game at Notre Dame Stadium.
4. Game 7 of a Blazers-Lakers playoff series at the Rose Garden.
5. A potential pennant-clinching game for the Cubs at Wrigley Field. (As long as the Dodgers aren't involved.)
1,000,000. The World Championship of darts; there can really be no other.

That's my top 5; what's yours?