Best of 2008

In the past year I was blessed with a great oppotunity to produce "one-man-band" reporting pieces for NYPost.com. My experience as a sports reporter for the website allowed to view many new things as a sports journalist. I covered almost every major professional NY metro-area sports team and I enjoyed it all from practice, to press conferences to locker room interviews. Let's take a look at some of my favorite stories from 2008:

I believe that one of the greatest sports accomplishments I have witnessed in my short life was Michael Phelps winning eight Olympic Gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Watch the world class swimmer dominate in the pool was amazing. Even more amazing may have been how once he returned to the United States, he gave back to the community with a donation to the YMCA of Greater New York.



While one of the greatest sports moments of the year was the New York Giants winning the Super Bowl; one of the greatest stories in football also had to be the NY Jets acquisition of future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre. Favre's first practice at Hofstra was truly memorable. Unfortunately, the season was not as memorable as the Jets missed the playoffs after starting the season 8-3.



New York is also home to the U.S. Open (Tennis) and last year I had the pleasure of attending and covering my first U.S. Open. Even more excting was the fact that I was priviliged to view a great match between two of the greatest female tennis players of all-time, Serena and Venus Willams.



Occasionally I had the opportunity to do a few non-sports related stories and have some fun. The most interesting was probably covering the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight. TDK which is now one of my favorite superhero/comic book based movies of all time was amazing to watch. However, even more interesting were some of the "characters" I interviewed before and after the premiere.



Other events that occurred in the NYC during the summer had the feel of premiere events. The All-Star Game Parade and visit by the U.S. Men's National Basketball Team aka The Redeem Team before they left for Bejing were exceptionally electric events.



As you may already see the events I covered were very diverse. However, from Michael Strahan's retirement to Joey Chestnut defending his hot dog eating title at Coney Island, to the New York Mets second straight collapse, and to the Giants preparing for another playoff run, I enjoyed seeing and experiencing it all in 2008!







NOTE: All videos were produced by Dexter Henry.