Wednesday (top stories of the decade) edition: Wha' Happened?

With the decade coming to an end (practically, if not technically) there are even more list-type-things coming out than at the end of just a regular old year. The Star Tribune is part of that game because lists are fun, they are consumed and they are controversial by nature (much like Stu's recipe for Smurf pie).

We served on a committee that attempted to determine the top 10 Minnesota-based sports stories of the 2000s. The list and accompanying piece was printed in Sunday's paper, but as usual print was way ahead of the Internet and it just hit the series of tubes today.

The committee slogged through a couple of long meetings that followed nominations for top stories from our staff. The list we came up with probably didn't completely satisfy everybody, but it was the committee's best shot. Personally, we would have put the arrival of No. 4 in purple at the top of the list, rather than No. 2, but that's just us (and a lot of you, too).

In any event, we invite the critiques from the RandBall extended family. Would you have switched the order of the 10 the committee chose? Are there oversights you consider glaring? Things that don't belong in the top 10? Does the first part of a decade always get shorted in these things? Should Elle Macpherson be higher?

If this keeps us from obsessing about the Vikings, then we're all for it.