Jaal proudly presents the best and worst of sports in the year gone by.
Phone call of the year: "Hello MK. Hansie here."
Heroes of the Year: The Delhi Police.
Zeroes of the Year: Hansie Cronje, Salim Malik, Mohammed Azharuddin, Ajay Sharma and numerous other yet unknown.
Hypocrite of the Year: Manoj "Hoist by his own petard" Prabhakar.
Cry-baby of the Year: Ajay Jadeja who should learn to take his medicine like a man.
Story of the Year: Tiger Woods who reduced the rest of the golf world to pussycats.
Joke of the Year: STAR News sports anchor Sonali Chander comparing Jyoti Randhawa's feat (second in Asia!) to Tiger Woods'.
Quote of the Year I: "I do not drink beer. I am a Brahmin" -- Karnam Malleswari.
Quote of the Year II: "The CBI report (on match-fixing) reads like a prostitute's diary" - BCCI vice-president Kamal "speak for yourself" Morarka.
Quote of the Year III: "Match fixing does not exist in Indian cricket" -- BCCI president AC Muthiah (Pre-CBI Report).
Quote of the Year IV: "Match fixing does not exist in Indian cricket" -- BCCI secretary JY Lele (Pre-CBI Report).
Quote of the Year V: "Match fixing does not exist in Indian cricket" -- Former BCCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur (Pre-CBI Report).
Feat of the Year I: British rower Steve Redgrave overcoming Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, diabetes - and a nagging wife who just happens to be the team doctor, to win his fifth Olympic gold in succession at Sydney.
Feat of the Year II: Michael Schumacher for bringing glory back to Formula 1's most famous team, Ferrari.
Feat of the Year III: Courtney Walsh for overtaking Kapil Dev as the world's highest wicket taker and coming close to number 500.
Oscar-award winning performance of the Year: To Sourav Ganguly for his prancing and pirouetting during the one-day International against Zimbabwe at Kanpur.
Apologist of the Year: The cricket writer who justified Ganguly's antics on the grounds that the umpiring was sub-standard.
Schoolboys' team of the year: The West Indies 'national' cricket side for whom reaching 100 is now a feat.
Sad Story of the Year I: Kapil Dev, reduced to tears on TV.
Sad Story of the Year II: Boris Becker splitting with his wife under pressure from Germany's racist society.
Sad Story of the Year III: Tiny Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan being stripped of her medal because of an incompetent doctor prescribing her a banned cold medicine.
Achievement of the Year I: Australia's Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman for shaking off the shackles of two centuries in winning the 400 metres gold at Sydney.
Achievement of the Year II: Marion Jones who said she would go for five gold at Sydney and managed three plus two bronze. It's taken the whole of India 44 years to achieve that.
Achievement of the Year III: Vishwanathan Anand who broke the Soviet and Russian monopoly on the world chess title. And so what if the 'Big K' was missing?
And finally..
Collective Gold Medal of the Year: To the entire Australian nation for making the Sydney Olympics the most memorable of all time.

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