LeBron James - Already An NBA Champion Of Friendship
Professional Basketball Player
Perhaps the biggest name in sports this year was basketball phenomenon LeBron James, who proved what an amazing friend he is this summer by signing ...
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Grýla - Responsible For The Year's Biggest Volcanic Eruption
Icelandic Ogress
No one had as much effect on air travel in 2010 as the horrifying Icelandic mountain ogress Grýla, who this spring launched a plume ...
René Préval - Secretly Leading Haiti Into A Golden Age
Haitian President
For most countries, a Category 2 hurricane, a devastating earthquake, and a massive cholera outbreak in the same year would cause its people—and its ...
Elena Kagan - Trust Us, She Needed This Gig Real Bad
Supreme Court Justice
When she became the fourth woman to join the highest court in the land last August, it was a significant moment in American history. But ...
Landon Donovan - A Disgrace To The Soccer-Loving Country Of America
Professional Soccer Player
In a year when so much went wrong for America, one would be hard-pressed to find a more tragic event than the beloved U.S ...
The iPad - Wait Till You See What We're Doing With This One
Consumer Phenomenon
It would be impossible to list the most influential people of 2010 without recognizing the individual who made the biggest splash in technology this year ...
Silvio Berlusconi - I Think The Leader Of The World's 10th-Largest Economy Put Something In My Drink
Italian Politician
"Come in," Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said as I was ushered by an assistant into his study. "I just opened this bottle of wine. Won ...
Manmohan Singh - The First Sikh Prime Minister Of...Okay, Here's What A Sikh Is
Leader of India
As the first Sikh elected to India's highest office, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has helped change the face of…okay, just so we don ...
Tony Hayward - The Brief, Shining Return Of The Classic British Gentleman
Businessman
Emulating the gallantry, adaptability, and dedication to duty displayed by English gentlemen in such shining moments as the Imperial occupation of India and adventurism in ...
Jan Brewer - Not Afraid To Do What The Federal Government Won't And Shouldn't
Arizona Governor
This April, when she signed into law Arizona's tough new anti-immigration policy, Gov. Jan Brewer bravely showed the nation that if the federal government ...
Mark Zuckerberg - Gotta Hand It To The Little Fucker
Founder of Facebook
No one made as large an impact on how we interact in 2010 as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who you really gotta hand it to ...
Snooki - Just Try Not To Think About Who Should Really Be In This Spot
Reality TV Star
The success of the MTV reality show Jersey Shore was a cultural phenomenon that could not be ignored in 2010, and no one was more ...
Barack Obama - Either Doing His Best In One of The Most Difficult Times In American History, Or Hitler
U.S. President
Barack Obama, the first black president, proved to millions this year that he is either trying his best to lead the nation during the worst ...
Abby Sunderland - Concocted History's Most Extreme Plan To Get Out Of A Summer Job
Teenage Adventurer
Few will be able to forget when 16-year-old California native Abby Sunderland set out this year to become the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the ...
Terry Jones - Could Have At Least Manned Up And Burned One Koran
Pastor
With the gaze of the whole world fixed on his small Gainesville, FL–based Dove World Outreach Center this Sept. 11, Pastor Terry Jones shocked ...
Kathryn Bigelow - First Woman To Win Oscar For Best Directress
Filmmaker
"I'm extremely proud of her Oscar," James Cameron said of his former wife.
Liu Xiaobo - Going To Be Pretty Tough For The Chinese Government To Kill Now
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
For his tireless crusade against single-party rule, writer, activist, and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, making it pretty tough ...
Mel Gibson - His Performance In 'Payback' Still Not Getting Enough Credit
Actor
In one of the biggest entertainment scandals of the year, Mel Gibson, more than a decade after the fact, still has not received the critical ...
Julian Assange: Nobody Likes A Tattletale
Whistleblower
Although Julian Assange sparked a media firestorm when he revealed thousands of pages of Pentagon reports proving that the U.S. military concealed more than ...
The Ones We Lost
Publishing magnate Bob Guccione died of cancer on Oct. 20. He was laid to rest several days later following a soft-lit, full-frontal open-casket funeral service.
About Onion Sports Network
The Onion Sports Network is the undisputed universal leader in sports coverage. OSN has studios and affiliates in every country that has sports, and our ...
Mike Shanahan Trails Off During Speech About Turning Franchise Around
WASHINGTON—Head coach Mike Shanahan attempted but failed to address his players regarding the Redskins' future Monday, repeatedly trailing off during what he evidently had ...
Josh Smith Claims He Once Saw Hawk Carry Away Basketball In Talons
ATLANTA—Hawks forward Josh Smith regaled his teammates Wednesday with a story about how he once watched a red-tailed hawk swoop down, grab a loose ...
NBA Receives Shipment Of Fresh Ankles
NEW YORK—Only a few weeks away from running out of its last batch, the NBA finally received on Monday the 40-pound crate of ankles ...
Center Worried He Did Something To Make Quarterback Call So Many Shotgun Formations
EUGENE, OR—Oregon Ducks center Jordan Holmes expressed concern Saturday that he may have said or done something to make sophomore quarterback Darron Thomas call ...
Report: 100 Percent Of College Football Players Receiving Benefits Of Being College Football Players
INDIANAPOLIS—An exhaustive three-year internal investigation has confirmed that a full 100 percent of college football players receive the advantages that come with being a ...
Other Notable Sports Figures Of 2010
Not all of them garnered the attention or the acclaim of LeBron and Landon, but it wouldn't be fair to talk about the year ...
Pat Riley
The Miami Heat's Big Three grabbed the most headlines this year, but all-time basketball genius Pat Riley is the one who brought them together ...
Defenders Of Wikileaks Cripple Credit Cards
After MasterCard and Visa stopped letting customers use their services to send financial support to Wikileaks, hackers targeted the credit cards’ websites, making them difficult ...
