2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah

In the NBA The Los Angeles Lakers played against the New Jersey Nets in the 2002 NBA Finals. The Lakers came into the Play offs with a 58-24 record while the Nets came into the playoffs with a record of 52-30. After both teams working so hard to get to the Finals the Lakers ended up "winning the finals sweeping the nets 4-0 never giving them the taste of victory, this was the Lakers third straight NBA champion ship" ("Basketball-reference.com"); "Shaquille O'Neal was named the MVP Averaging 36.3 points per game 12.3 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.8 blocks per game." (basketball-reference.com) .
             In NFL, The New England Patriots and the St. Louis Rams me in Super Bowl XXXVI, the New England Patriots came into the playoffs with a 9 an 7 record the same as the St. Louis Rams. The Super Bowl was held in Louisiana Super Dome in New Orleans. "The game was a battle to the very end the Patriots lead the game 17-10 with 9:31 left in the game when the pats went three and out the Rams then drove down the field to tie the game at 17-17 then with 1:30 left Tom Brady drove the Pats down the field to the Rams 41 yard line." ("NFL.com") Then the pressure was on he Pats kicker Adam Vinatieri who drilled the" 48 yard field goal through the uprights to beat the rams 20-17" ("NFL.com") and become the Super bowl XXXVI champions! "Tom Brady went on to win the MVP completing 16-27 passing and throwing for a touchdown." ("NFL.com") This would begin the Patriots three straight super bowl wins.
             In the golf world, Tiger Woods was in his prime with nothing holding him back from achieving greatness, in 2002 Tiger Put up amazing numbers with an "average drive of 293.3 yards hitting 67.5% of fairways and hitting 74% of greens in regulation and perhaps the most phenomenal and most important of all he had a putting average of 1.766 per hole." ("PGA").
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             In 2002, Tiger won 5 Tournaments including 2 majors. Tiger won the Bay Hill "Invitational by 3 strokes taking home $720,000 in prize money now if you think that sounds good Tiger also went on to win the 2002 Masters winning by 4 strokes to Phil Mickelson and taking home $1,008,000.