Best Head to Head matchups over the years

[cj's dad]

#1- Chamberlain vs Russell
#2- Ali vs. Frazier
#3-McEnroe vs Connors
#4-Chiefs vs Raiders (60's-AFL)
#5- Yankees vs. Red Sox

[lamboguy]

1. Celtics Lakers

2. Yankees Dodgers

3. Raider's Steeler's---Cowboys Steeler's

4. Affirmed Alydar

5. Lure Cozzene

[Valuist]

Have to have Affirmed/Alydar on there. This IS a racing website. Maybe Celtics-Lakers as well. I'd take out Yankees-Red Sox. Those are regular season games. Huge for the Boo-yahs but the rest of the country doesn't really care.

[Bettowin]

Black Ruby and Taz

Raced 25 times against each other. Can't say that for any four legged animals:)

[Stillriledup]

#1- Chamberlain vs Russell
#2- Ali vs. Frazier
#3-McEnroe vs Connors
#4-Chiefs vs Raiders (60's-AFL)
#5- Yankees vs. Red Sox

Why Yankees Red Sox? One team is the flagship franchise in all of sports and the other is a team who didnt win a world series for 85 years (and then needed to hire a bunch of steroid cheats to win one) why would this be a rivalry? If a 98 lb weakling kicked sand on a 6 foot 4 bodybuilder even though the bodybuilder was saying "leave me alone" do we think that would be a "rivalry" just because the weakling wants one?

[Stillriledup]

#1- Chamberlain vs Russell
#2- Ali vs. Frazier
#3-McEnroe vs Connors
#4-Chiefs vs Raiders (60's-AFL)
#5- Yankees vs. Red Sox

Magic v Bird

Spike Lee vs Reggie Miller

[horses4courses]

Although he didn't play him as often as Connors, John McEnroe's rivalry with Borg was just as intense. They were also of like age, whereas McEnroe had an edge over Connors there. The match W/L tally for Borg/McEnroe ended even at 11-11.

[Stillriledup]

Although he didn't play him as often as Connors, John McEnroe's rivalry with Borg was just as intense. They were also of like age, whereas McEnroe had an edge over Connors there. The match W/L tally for Borg/McEnroe ended even at 11-11.

Borg and Mac became close friends, which was really cool.

[Delta Cone]

Silver Charm vs Free House

Bears vs Packers

Nicklaus vs Watson

Nicklaus vs Trevino

[elysiantraveller]

Michigan / Ohio State

Red Wings / Avalanche was fantastic for awhile too...

[thaskalos]

Garry Kasparov vs. Anatoly Karpov

Nick "the Greek" Dandolos vs Johnny Moss

Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder vs Brent Musburger

[horses4courses]

Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder vs Brent Musburger

Please fill me in on that one.
I lived abroad from 1968-86, so I missed much of the 70s, early 80s, US sports.

Now, I know that Jimmy the Greek was the odds guru, who brought pointspread terminology to TV on NFL Sundays.
But, I never knew he had any rivalry with Musberger. What did it involve? Professional jealousy?

[Ocala Mike]

Riggs vs. King

Cain vs. Abel

[Marshall Bennett]

Packers / Cowboys

Hagler / Hearns

Marciano / Walcot

[wiffleball whizz]

Georgetown Syracuse

Army navy

Mich Ohio st

Wyoming Colorado st

Baltimore pit

Nadal federer

Andre Pete

[Jeff P]

Bobby Knight vs. empty chair.

[JustRalph]

Petty vs Pearson

[thaskalos]

Please fill me in on that one.
I lived abroad from 1968-86, so I missed much of the 70s, early 80s, US sports.

Now, I know that Jimmy the Greek was the odds guru, who brought pointspread terminology to TV on NFL Sundays.
But, I never knew he had any rivalry with Musberger. What did it involve? Professional jealousy?

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19801030&id=u7sdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CkcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4801,5808038

[LottaKash]

Mike Tyson vs. Himself... :D

[proximity]

kazushi sakuraba vs pretty much the entire gracie family.

too bad he never fought rickson.

[ManU918]

Ward vs Gatti

[atlasaxis]

Bruno Sammartino vs the Iron Sheik

[cj's dad]

Why Yankees Red Sox? One team is the flagship franchise in all of sports and the other is a team who didnt win a world series for 85 years (and then needed to hire a bunch of steroid cheats to win one) why would this be a rivalry? If a 98 lb weakling kicked sand on a 6 foot 4 bodybuilder even though the bodybuilder was saying "leave me alone" do we think that would be a "rivalry" just because the weakling wants one?

You are right- I have re-thought my opinion and you are not as smart as I once thought.

[MutuelClerk]

Bo - Woody

Probert - All comers

Chrissy - Martina

Seve - U.S. Ryder Cup

Lakers - Celtics ( 80's)

Arnie - Jack

[TJDave]

Cain vs. Abel

Hatfields & McCoys

OU vs. Texas

[PhantomOnTour]

Martina Navratilova vs Chris Evert

[Marshall Bennett]

A&M vs. Texas

RIP

[Rise Over Run]

Kobayashi vs Chestnut

[Rookies]

Habs - Leafs
Argos- Ticats
Churchill - Hitler
Pepsi - Coke
Super Bowl - World Cup
PAC 1- Autobahn
ANY Canadian Beer- U.S.

[cj]

Evert / Navratilova

Jack Nicklaus / Tom Watson

Magic Johnson / Larry Bird

Later tainted, but McGwire / Sosa (it was great at the time)

Barry Sanders / Emmit Smith

Federer / Nadal, but maybe Djokovic / Nadal will be even better