A – America. It wasn't quite Jesse Owens dominating the 1936 Olympics while Hitler watched in Berlin or the Miracle on Ice in Lake Placid in 1980 or the sound of the United Center in Chicago during the national anthem before the 1991 NHL All-Star game in the midst of the Gulf War or Mike Piazza's game-winning home run in the first baseball game played in New York since 9/11 or President Bush's perfect strike in a ceremonial first pitch to open the 2001 World Series in New York or Joey Chestnut beating Kobayashi on the Fourth of July in 2007 or Michael Phelps and the US relay team beating the favored French in Beijing in 2008. No, this had nothing to do with sports. However, whether you were at the Phillies game or at an NBA playoff game or at home watching the NHL playoffs with your ex-girlfriend/or best friend, you will never forget where you wear when you heard that Osama Bin Laden had been killed…courtesy of the Red, White & Blue.

B – Boise State. The Broncos are looking more and more like a big-time college football program every day. First there were the BCS bowl games and then the exodus of players to the NFL and now come the NCAA accusations of major violations and infractions over a five-year period. Boise State is probably just trying to fit in.

C – Couture, Randy.  Jake Shields vs. Georges St. Pierre at UFC 129 drew a crowd of 55,724 people to Toronto's Rogers Centre. In the main event Pierre defeated Jake Shields via unanimous decision to retain his welterweight championship. In the other big fights, Jose Aldo won via unanimous decision against Mark Hominick to retain the featherweight championship and Randy Couture went out in style by getting his teeth knocked out and himself knocked out thanks to a flying kick to the face by Lyoto Machida. The event was a raging success for everyone except Couture, with attendance and gate receipts records being shattered. And to think that MMA fighting was outlawed in Ontario until August 2010.

D – DUI. If you like to drink and drive like most Americans and you are a professional athlete, unlike most Americans, then you should probably play baseball. While frowned upon in the other major sporting leagues, DUIs in baseball are looked upon somewhere along the lines of jaywalking and totally good behavior. Shin-soo Choo became the sixth MLB player to get picked up this year while driving hammered. Along with Choo, Derek Lowe, Coco Crisp, Miguel Cabrera, Austin Kearns and Adam Kennedy have all been arrested for DUIs since January and none have been suspended. See S for more on Choo.

E – Eat Shit Pitt. Celebrations erupted across college campuses in the wake of Bin Laden's death. One of the best parties-celebrations-patriotic-fueled-booze-riots took place in Morgantown, West Virginia, home of West Virginia University. Students responded to the news of Bin Laden's death the same way they responded to news of their basketball team reaching the Elite Eight in 2006 and their football team defeating No. 3 Virginia Tech in 2003, by lighting furniture on fire in the streets. The pro-USA celebration had a unique WVU twist to it as chants of U-S-A! U-S-A! were interspersed with chants of “Eat Shit Pitt” because if he were alive, Bin Laden would probably be a Pitt fan.

F – Francesca Schiavone. Defending French Open women's champion, Italy's Francesca Schiavone, let everyone in on her secret to success. Schiavone said, "For a woman, sex before a match is not only allowed, it is fantastic. It raises your hormone levels and brings advantages to all of your points." So there you have it, if you want to hook up with a tennis player, it is a lot easier to close the deal closer to match time.

G – Gordon Ramsay. You know things are bad for your organization when the guy throwing out the first pitch does not even want to stick around for the real first pitch. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay threw out the first pitch at Dodger Stadium on Monday at 6:55 p.m. local time. By 7:50 p.m. he was sitting next to David Beckham with a shit-eating grin on his face at Staples Center watching the Lakers play the Mavericks. Considering the distance between the venues and Los Angeles traffic, it is highly unlikely Ramsay even saw the actual first pitch of the game, just like everyone else in Los Angeles.

H – Ho-Pin Tung. When Ho-Pin Tung attempts to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 on May 21, it will be a big deal because, in case you couldn’t already tell, Tung is Chinese and no Chinese driver has ever qualified for the Indy 500. Not only will he be attempting to be the first Chinese driver to qualify for the Indy 500, but Tung is also trying to disprove the notion that Asians cannot drive.

I – Idol. Apparently “American Idol” is still around. I know this because they have odds for it on Bodog. James Durbin is the favorite at 5/4 while the longshot is Jacob Lusk at 30/1. The other contenders are Scott McCreery (7/4), Lauren Alaina (4/1) and Haley Reinhart (15/2).

J – Jason Hunter. Denver Broncos defensive end Jason Hunter was one of three professional athletes to be stabbed by his significant other in the span of a week. Hunter was stabbed by his 23-year-old girlfriend, just days after teammate Brandon Marshall was stabbed by his wife and days before Golden State Warriors guard Charlie Bell was stabbed by his wife. All three are expected to make a full recovery, at least physically.

K – Killed. The biggest news story of 2011 is that Bin Laden has been killed. It happened on a Sunday night when many people were watching sporting events. Some people heard about the news from fellow fans at two ongoing games they were at, either the Lightning/Capitals NHL playoff game or Phillies/Mets MLB regular season game. Some heard about it from WWE wrestler John Cena, who made the announcement during WWE's Extreme Rules pay-per-view, while others may have stumbled across it accidentally, by say checking LaMarr Woodley's facebook status.

L – Lakers Kiss Cam. The sideshow that is courtside at a Lakers game took a turn for the hilarious when “Step Brothers” castmates Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly were captured on the kiss cam. The two actors obliged and basically started making out on the spot as the crowd erupted. The best part was that Reilly was in the midst of pounding a hamburger when this all went down.

M – Mendenhall, Rashard. Plenty of celebrities and famous athletes say stupid things on Twitter. Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall went ahead and topped everyone with his conspiracy suggesting, pro-Osama, anti-American comments on Tuesday. Mendenhall started unleashing the following tweets, "What kind of person celebrates death? It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We've only heard one side..." and then this doozy, “We’ll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.”

N – No-No. Minnesota Twins pitcher Francisco Liriano had never even pitched a complete game, but on Tuesday night Liriano went the distance and earned the first no-hitter of the 2011 season. By this time last season there had been about six dozen no-hitters tossed, but Liriano's was the first this season. It was hardly a work of art as Liriano labored through nine innings, walking six and needing 123 pitches to pull off the feat.

O – Obama, Barack. With a couple bullets to the head of Bin Laden, Barack Obama all of a sudden shot (pun intended) to a 1/25 favorite to win the Democratic Nomination for president and a 4/9 favorite to win the next presidential election. Odds are courtesy of Bodog.

P – Padres. You can count the San Diego Padres as one organization trying to bank on the wave of patriotism sweeping across the nation. The Padres donned their camouflage jerseys on Monday night to commemorate the death of Bin Laden. Then they went out and played like a corpse under the sea in a loss to the hapless Pirates. A loss to the Pirates always hurts attendance so the Padres took things a step further and offered two free tickets to the next night's game for any active, retired and veteran military personnel.

Q – Quarterback Zombie. It takes a special type and amount of marijuana to be described as a zombie by an arresting officer, but that is exactly what officer Francisco Acosta said of Chris Simms, who apparently is still in the league and with the Tennessee Titans. After being arrested on a traffic stop, the 30-year old was emitting a terrible odor of marijuana although he claims it was his passenger who was smoking. The arresting officer said of Simms, "He was out of it, like a zombie. He was very, very unsteady on his feet." That description sounds awfully familiar for Tampa Bay Buccaneer fans.

R – Ryan Mallett. The Patriots newest quarterback, Ryan Mallett, the 6-foot-7 253 pound third-round draft pick out of Arkansas, claims he is just like Tom Brady. "Me and Tom are kind of the same," Mallett actually claimed. Well they did both go to Michigan once, they are both slow and they were both passed up by every NFL team at least twice in the draft before being taken by the Patriots.

S – Shin-soo Choo. Choo was pulled over early Monday morning and blew an impressive 0.20, after apparently celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden. Choo's performance certainly ranks in the DUI Hall of Fame. The 28-year old South Korean did so much celebrating that while intoxicated he tracked down a police officer to ask directions to his own house. This is tantamount to asking a police officer where to hide a gun you just used in a homicide. The cop gave Choo the directions then watched him peel away and cross the center line before pulling him over and issuing the DUI.

T – Tiger Woods. Over 18 months since sleeping in his driveway shoeless, Tiger Woods returned to Las Vegas, the first time he has been there as a single man in a long time. Apparently Woods tore the town up more than Siegfried & Roy's white tiger that got loose one time. Woods dropped a quarter of a million dollars at the Mandalay Bay casino, according to local media reports. The casinos really missed single Tiger.

U – U! S! A! U! S! A!. Impromptu ‘USA, USA’, chants have sprouted out everywhere, but Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia may be able to boast the first post-Bin Laden death ‘USA’ chant on live television. In the top of the ninth of the Mets/Phillies game on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, word quickly spread throughout the ballpark that Bin Laden had been killed and the crowd erupted in the a goosebump-inducing ‘U-S-A! U-S-A!’ chant.

V – Vancouver Green Men. Spandex-wearing fans have taken the US by storm and now they have crossed the border into Canada and apparently crossed the line too. The Vancouver Canucks have asked their two green spandex-wearing Super Fans to tone down their antics. The two fans dubbed ‘Sully’ and ‘Force’, are not the first fans to don the extremely tight-fitting spandex to sporting events, they are just the first ones with front-row seats. The duo has been asked to stop touching the glass, mocking the opposition and doing handstands from their seats.

W – Will Call. Orlando Magic point guard Jameer Nelson had a pair of tickets to the Hawks/Bulls Game 1 showdown waiting for him Monday night at the United Center. Somebody from Atlanta had arranged the tickets to be set aside for Nelson after everyone overheard him telling Bulls point guard Derrick Rose, "catch you in the second round." Nelson said this when he knew that his team would be playing Atlanta in the first round so it was an obvious dis to the Hawks, who upset the Magic in the first round. So somebody from Atlanta was just making sure that Nelson could hold up his end of the bargain by seeing Rose in the second round.

X – maXim hot 100. The new Megan Fox, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley of “Transformers,” is No. 1 on this year's Maxim 100. The old Megan Fox, Megan Fox, is No. 17. Sports-related figures on the countdown include No. 19 Anna Kournikova, No. 36 Andy Roddick's wife Brooklyn Decker, No. 52 Derek Jeter's girlfriend Minka Kelly, No. 70, MMA affiliated Arianny Celeste and No. 91 Erin "Peephole" Andrews.

Y – Yawn. There was apparently another pro football draft last week. I don’t even think Mel Kiper Jr. knew about it. The United Football League, home to all of six teams, held its 10-round draft and it took 49 minutes and it took place on, I kid you not, Twitter, so obviously Rashard Mendenhall was not getting drafted. I know there were only six teams, but 49 minutes? Fantasy football drafts take longer than that. The first overall pick was Texas A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson, who went to a team in Hartford. After that, even the most diehard college football fans would be hard pressed to recognize some of these guys.

Z – Zen Master. The Zen Master Phil Jackson reverted to a scene from "The Hangover" to get his team fired up for Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals. Jackson showed the Lakers the roof scene from the movie when Zach Galifianakis' character Alan Garner famously rambles, "You guys might not know this, but I consider myself a bit of a loner. I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack. But when my sister brought Doug home, I knew he was one of my own. And my wolf pack... it grew by one. So there... there were two of us in the wolf pack... I was alone first in the pack, and then Doug joined in later. And six months ago, when Doug introduced me to you guys, I thought, "Wait a second, could it be?" And now I know for sure, I just added two more guys to my wolf pack. Four of us wolves, running around the desert together, in Las Vegas, looking for strippers and cocaine. So tonight, I make a toast! As classic as the line was, it did not work, the six-point favorite Lakers lost by two in Game 1.