Clubhouse Chatter: What's the greatest feat you've seen at an athletic venue?
What our Sports staff has to say while waiting for the games to resume.
Being at Soldier Field in 1977 and watching Walter Payton run for 275 yards against Minnesota ... with the flu.
- Barry Rozner
Mark Buehrle's perfect game for the White Sox on July 23. What made it particularly remarkable was Buehrle led American League starting pitchers in most hits allowed four times. As an added bonus, center fielder Dewayne Wise's acrobatic catch in the ninth inning to preserve the perfecto was one of the greatest in major league history.
- Scot Gregor
I had terrace reserved seats at Wrigley Field on Opening Day, 1994. Tuffy Rhodes homered three times off Doc Gooden. It was so improbable. Rhodes would hit 13 major league home runs in 590 at-bats over six seasons. Gooden shook his head after the third shot. For a day, Rhodes shook Wrigleyville.
- Jerry Fitzpatrick
It was a pretty monumental moment for women's team sports when the WNBA tipped off its first game of its first season in 1997. It was the New York Liberty against the Los Angeles Sparks.
- Patricia Babcock McGraw
It was catch by Buffalo Grove center fielder Katie Lee. In a Mid-Suburban East softball game in 2008, Lee backpedaled toward the left-centerfield fence, leapt over it and made a spectacular catch to rob Elk Grove's Kayla Mahoney of a home run.
- John Leusch
Anytime you saw Michael Jordan play, you witnessed a great athletic feat.
- Orrin Schwarz
This is actually a trifecta. In 1976, Lawrenceville High School's Jay Shidler lit up Assembly Hall in Champaign, providing a performance for the ages and one that hasn't been matched in three games of an Illinois High School Association boys state basketball tournament since. Shidler, who was dubbed "The Blonde Bomber" and who went on to play at Kentucky, scored 37 points in a quarterfinal game, 48 in the semifinals and 45 in the third-place game. In each of those games, he would have had 60-plus had there been a 3-pointer back then. The kid could shoot the rock like no one else I've seen.
- John Radtke