There is no shortage of tales of heartbreak in the world of sports. The Munich Olympic Games, 1972, when confusion over time left on the clock rendered the USA men's basketball team silver medalists, instead of gold. Jim Thorpe, the greatest all-round athlete of the first half of the 20th century, stripped of his Olympic medals because he took some petty amount of money for food. But in the category of errors, no matter how many interceptions are thrown, how many foul shots missed, the Bill Buckner between-the-legs ground ball is the number-one, all-time gaffe. It happened twenty years ago yesterday and has grown to become cultural legend. Beyond legendary, the error is now mythical. Beyond mythical, it's actually crossed over
at this point to cliché...
