2010 All-Big 12 Conference football team, Key
Bold = selected as a first-team player by both the coaches and media panel


2010 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 2010 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big Ten Conference players for the 2010 Big Ten Conference football season. The conference recognizes two official All-Big Ten selectors: (1) the Big Ten conference coaches selected separate offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Coaches" team); and (2) a panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the Big Ten also selected offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Media" team).


2010 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
Bold = Consensus first-team selection by both the coaches and media


2010 All-Ireland Colleges Camogie Championship
The 2010 All-Ireland Colleges Camogie Championship was won by , who defeated  by 2–5 to 1–7 in the final on March 6, 2010, at Ardfinnan. Lismore's one point defeat in the final narrowly prevented a unique treble for the sport of Senior C, Senior B and Senior A titles in successive years.


2010 All-Ireland Colleges Camogie Championship, Graded Competitions
There were graded competitions for colleges at three different levels. In the 2010 All Ireland Senior B final Colaiste Choilm, Ballincollig from Cork defeated Borris Vocational School from Carlow by 3–9 to 2–5, in Cahir. In the 2010 All Ireland Senior C final Presentation, Thurles defeated Banagher Community School by 3–18  to 1–1 in Toomevara.


2010 All-Ireland Colleges Camogie Championship, Trophy
The trophy is the Corn Sceilge in honour of Seán Ó Ceallaigh (1872–1959) (known as Sceilg, an acronym of his name in Irish: Seán S. Ó Ceallaigh), one of the members of the Keating Branch of the Gaelic League that participated in the first Camogie matches in 1904. The shape of the cup is on the lines of the Ardagh Chalice.


2010 All-Ireland Colleges Camogie Championship, Semi-finals
At the inter-provincial stages of the 2010 competition Blackwater CS, Lismore beat Portumna Community School 3–5 to 0–3 and Loreto, Kilkenny beat St. Patrick's College, Maghera 2–11 to 3-07 in the semi-finals. In the Senior B semi-finals Colaiste Choilm, Ballincollig defeated Holy Rosary, Mountbellew by 2–14 to 0–3. Borris VS, Carlow beat St Colm's, Draperstown 2–5 to 3-0 after Colm's led by three goals to two points at half time. In the Senior C semi-finals Presentation, Thurles beat Seamount, Kinvara 3–11 to 1–1 and Banagher CS defeated St Louis, Kilkeel 5–6 to 4–6 in a replay after drawing 3–4 to 2–7.


2010 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 2010 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 27th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1961. The championship began on 30 May 2010 and ended on 28 August 2010.


2010 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
Cork were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Kilkenny who won the title following a 2-17 to 1-13 victory in the final.


2010 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship
The 2010 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship is an inter-county competition for age graded development squad county teams in the women's team field sport of camogie. The championship was won by Galway, who defeated Clare by four points in a replayed final. The drawn match was played at Nenagh and the replay at Semple Stadium.


2010 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship, Arrangements
Three goals and two points from Susan Fahy helped Clare beat Tipperary in the semi-final at Kilmallock. Galway defeated Kilkenny 1–14 to 2–10 as Kilkenny only managed 1–3 from play.


2010 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship, The Final
Rebecca Hennelly took a pass from Shauna Healy and drove it to the Clare net, and then Rebecca Hennelly added a point from a free for Galway’s equalizer in a drawn final at Nenagh. Ailish O'Reilly’s first-half goal helped Galway to a 2 - 12 to 2 - 8 victory over Clare in the replay at Semple Stadium. Clodagh McGrath and the accurate Rebecca Hennelly gave Galway the perfect start, and after O'Reilly’s goal, three unanswered points from Hennelly (free), Aoife Donoghue, and Finola Keely put gave Galway the initiative. Despite a Clare fight-back, Marie Breheny sealed the game for Galway with her 39th-minute goal.


2010 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship, B Division
Goals from Mary Jo McCullagh, Mary Kelly and Gráinne McNicholl secured the Minor B final for  Derry who defeated Antrim by ten points in the final at Celtic Park. Derry defeated Offaly 5–17 to 0–5 and Antrim defeated Waterford 2–14 to 2–6 both at Ashbourne in the semi-finals. The Minor C final was won by Carlow who defeated Armagh by ten points in the final. Two goals by Eleanor Treacy gave Carlow  a half time lead as an exciting second-half saw 28 scores by 15 different players.


2010 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
The 2010 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the ESB Minor Football Championship) is the premier "knockout" competition for under-18 competitors of the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Minor Football Final being played on the third Sunday in September 2010 in Croke Park, Dublin.


2010 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
The 2010 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 80th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928. The championship began on 10 April and ended on 5 September 2010.


2010 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
Galway entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Kilkenny in the All-Ireland semi-final.


2010 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
On 5 September 2010, Kilkenny won the championship after a 2-10 to 0-14 defeat of Clare in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park. This was their 20th championship title overall and their first title since 2008.


2010 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
Clare's Niall Arthur was the championship's top scorer with 0-50.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—is the high point of the 2010 season in the sport of camogie. It commenced on June 13, 2010 and ended with the final between Galway and Wexford on 12 September 2010 which Wexford won by 1-12 to 1-10. Seven teams compete in the Senior Championship out of twenty-seven who competed overall in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Championships.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Structure
The seven teams played one another once, and receive 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw. The top four teams then contested the semi-finals, in which both 2009 finalists were defeated, defending champions Cork by Galway by one point in a replay and 2009 finalists Kilkenny by National Camogie League 2010 champions Wexford.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Finals
For the first time since 2006 the finals did not share a billing with the All-Ireland Under 21 Hurling Championship. Instead the All Ireland Senior, Intermediate, and Junior championship finals were held on the same day.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Galway Anomaly
When Galway beat Wexford 1-8 to 0-10 in the group stages only to lose the final 1-12 to 1-10, it was the third time in the five years since the championship moved from a knockout system to a round-robin format in 2006 that the runners-up defeated the eventual champions in the group stages.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 79th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
Wexford led 1-8 to 0-4 at half-time but Galway nearly staged a comeback, an injury time goal by Aisling Connolly narrowing the gap to two points at the end.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final was a hurling match played at Croke Park, Dublin, the headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association, on Wednesday, 17 March 2010, to determine the winners of the 2009–10 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship. The match was won by Ballyhale Shamrocks of Kilkenny, who beat Portumna of Galway by 1-19 to 0-17. The referee was Cathal McAllister from Cork.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
The win gave Ballyhale Shamrocks a record-breaking fifth All-Ireland title, their first since 2007, and put them alone at the top of club hurling's roll of honour, one title ahead their great provincial rivals from Birr. Meanwhile, Portumna had won the previous two championships and were hoping to secure an unprecedented third All-Ireland title in-a-row, thus cementing their reputation as the greatest club hurling team of all-time.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final, Background
Prior to the 2010 final, Ballyhale Shamrocks and Portumna had previously met only once in the All-Ireland championship. That meeting took place in the All-Ireland semi-final of the 2008-09 championship. That game ended in a 5-11 to 1-16 victory for Portumna, who subsequently went on to claim the All-Ireland title for a second successive year.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final, Background
Both teams went into the final with history beckoning. Portumna were only one game away from being immortalised as the greatest club hurling team of all-time by claiming an unprecedented third successive All-Ireland title and a remarkable fourth in five championship seasons. The club had already come to be regarded as possibly the greatest club side of all-time. Winning an elusive three-in-a-row would close the argument on club hurling's greatest team. Ballyhale Shamrocks were also out to make history by attempting to capture a record-breaking fifth All-Ireland title.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 124th edition of the GAA's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament, played between 31 of the 32 counties of Ireland plus London and New York.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The draw for the championship took place on 22 October 2009. The championship began on 2 May 2010 and concluded with the All-Ireland final at Croke Park on 19 September 2010. Cork defeated Down by 0-16 to 0-15 to win their seventh All-Ireland senior title, and their first since 1990.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 2010 championship was unusual in that all four provincial champions (Kerry, Meath, Roscommon and Tyrone) were knocked out in the All-Ireland quarter-finals, and all four provincial runners-up (Limerick, Louth, Sligo and Monaghan) were eliminated in the fourth and final round of the All-Ireland qualifiers. Kerry and Sligo were defeated by Down, Meath and Monaghan by Kildare, Roscommon and Limerick by Cork, and Tyrone and Louth by Dublin. Cork then defeated Dublin in the first All-Ireland semi-final, before Down defeated Kildare in the second.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format
Four knockout (single elimination format) provincial championships were played. London and New York competed in Connacht. The four provincial champions advanced to the All-Ireland quarter-finals.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, All-Ireland Qualifiers, Round 1
The 16 teams which failed to reach a provincial semi-final took part in Round 1 of the qualifiers (New York do not compete). A draw was held on 13 June 2010 to decide which of these teams would face each other.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, All-Ireland Qualifiers, Round 2
The draw for Round 2 was held on 28 June 2010. The eight Round 1 winners were each drawn against one of the losing provincial semi-finalists.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, All-Ireland Qualifiers, Round 3
The draw for Round 3 was held on 11 July 2010. The eight Round 2 winners play-off to reduce the number of teams to four.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, All-Ireland Qualifiers, Round 4
The draw for Round 4 was held on 18 July 2010. The four Round 3 winners were each drawn against one of the losing provincial finalists.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 2010 All-Ireland Football Final was the 123rd event of its kind. The last football match of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, it was played between Cork and Down on 19 September 2010 in Croke Park, Dublin.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Cork were victorious, achieving their first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title since 1990. It was their seventh title in total. This made them the sixth team in two decades to win both the league and championship in the same season. It was the first time since the 2002 final – when Armagh won their first ever title – that a team other than Kerry or Tyrone were declared champions.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
This was the last occasion on which iconic broadcaster Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh commentated on a final to a global audience, having announced his retirement days earlier after a six-decade career.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The game was watched by the highest television audience for an All-Ireland Football Final in five years.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, History
This was the first meeting between the sides in an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. The one previous All-Ireland Senior Football Championship match between the two sides was a semi-final in 1994 which Down won. They had not met in the National Football League for more than a decade.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, History
2010 was Cork's fifth appearance in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final since 1993, the most recent of these being 2007 and 2009. They last won the title in 1990.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, History
Down had less experience approaching the match, having not featured in a final of any description since the 2003 Ulster Senior Football Championship. They last appeared in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final in 1994. Down had however beaten Kerry, the reigning All-Ireland Senior Football Champions, in their 2010 quarter-final. Ahead of the 2010 final Down had also won all five All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Finals in which they had featured throughout their history. Were they to have defeated Cork they would have had the same number of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship titles as Cork at this point. Cork defeated Dublin in their semi-final, whilst Down defeated Kildare in theirs.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, History
Prior to the senior final, Tyrone defeated Cork in the minor final by one point.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Kit
On Monday 30 August 2010, the GAA's Central Competitions Control Committee announced that both teams would play in their away kits due to both home kits being red. This meant that Cork would play in a predominantly white kit with a red trim, while Down would play in a predominantly yellow kit with a red and black trim. This is a similar arrangement to what occurred when Cork and Down played in a semi-final of the 1994 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. 2010 represented the first occasion since Kerry and Offaly played in the 1982 final that both teams playing in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final donned alternative strips, whilst the 1996 final was the last time one team (Meath) wore an alternative strip (versus Mayo).


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Tickets
Tickets were reported to be selling for €400 on eBay during the weekend of the final. Planes, trains and buses from Cork were said to have been fully booked, with Iarnród Éireann commissioning five additional trains to Dublin due to "phenomenal demand".


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Retirement of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh
Legendary commentator Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, who had covered Gaelic games for seven decades, announced his impending retirement on the Thursday before the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, but not before performing on his final final of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. He appeared as a guest on both The Late Late Show (television) and Miriam Meets... (radio) ahead of the final.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Rocky the Chicken
Rocky the Chicken, who achieved national recognition for successfully predicting 2010 All-Ireland Championship results, opted for Cork as the winner of 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final ahead of the event.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Convoy protests
The Croke Park Streets Committee (CPSC) intended to protest what they perceived to be the Gaelic Athletic Association's ignorance of the wishes of local residents by staging a vehicular demonstration outside Croke Park on All-Ireland Final day. They cancelled ahead of the event however, after Cork fans objected to possible disruption, instead protesting at the stadium the day before.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Team selection
Down named the same team that defeated Kildare in the semi-final. Cork named Eoin Cadogan and Graham Canty to start in the final, with Canty serving as team captain. Cadogan had not started the semi-final but came on in Canty's place when Canty wounded his knee. John Miskella was not to play instead. On final day itself Canty was ruled out of the starting team. Miskella started in his place.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary, First half
Ciarán Sheehan of Cork's goal-bound effort was saved by Brendan McVeigh, Down's goalkeeper, in the first minute. Down were leading by 0-7 to 0-2 after 27 minutes. Cork's two points in this period included a free taken by Daniel Goulding. In the 32nd minute Goulding was also the player to score Cork's first point from open play. Cork's Donncha O'Connor also contributed to reducing the gap between the sides as half-time approached. At half-time Cork were behind by three points, having scored 0-5 to Down's 0-8.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary, Second half
In the second half Cork were the dominant team. This was helped by the addition of two of Cork's more experienced players to the game: Nicholas Murphy was brought on as a substitute at half-time by Cork manager Conor Counihan, while Graham Canty was brought on as a substitute soon afterwards. In the 56th minute Paul Kerrigan gave Cork back the lead which they relinquished after five minutes, with Goulding boosting this lead by scoring three '45s. Down's Benny Coulter and Daniel Hughes scored in the dying minutes but it was too late, even though there was just a single point between the sides. Cork were victorious.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary, Second half
For Cork Daniel Goulding scored a total of nine points and Donncha O'Connor scored a total of five points. Cork won by a scoreline of 0-16 to 0-15. Goulding was declared "Man of the Match" by The Sunday Game panel.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Broadcast
The game was broadcast on television via The Sunday Game on RTÉ Two as well as worldwide on RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and on RTÉ.ie. It was also broadcast by the BBC on radio, television and online.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Reaction
Lord Mayor of Cork Mick O'Connell described it as "an incredible match ... so tense ... Everyone was delirious when they won".


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Reaction
Cork manager Conor Counihan expressed his feelings in the press room: "Relief, at the end of the day. It's fantastic for the lads, each and every one of them. I spoke to them and we have 30 good guys here, but there are a lot of guys down the years who for one reason or another we had to move on from and those guys are part of this. And the last 20 years, we were landed with a fantastic group of players. They made it hard for themselves, but that makes it all the sweeter".


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Reaction
Cork captain Graham Canty also expressed his feelings at a press conference: "Ah. It feels all right now. It is humbling being captain of this bunch of players. I don't understand why I am in here, just because I am captain". Canty offered his sympathies to Down captain Benny Coulter for the loss he had suffered.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Reaction
Down manager James McCartan paid tribute to Cork "Because I do feel Cork were deserving winners on the day. We've no qualms about that at all". He also expressed pride in his own players. Down forward Danny Hughes said: "Well, none of us want to be one-hit wonders. There are a lot of young lads that came in this year, and there is a great development squad coming through. But we know these days don't happen every year, making All-Ireland finals. Hopefully this will make them hungrier, going forward into next year".


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Homecoming
Tens of thousands of people were expected to line Cork city centre for a street party to coincide with the arrival of the winning team on 20 September 2010. The event was scheduled to be broadcast live to a global audience on the website of the Cork-based Irish Examiner national newspaper at 18:45.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Awards
The nominations for the 2010 GAA All Stars Awards were announced on the night of 22 September 2010. Eleven Cork players and seven Down players featured.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 114th staging of Ireland's premier hurling competition since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. A total of thirteen teams competed in the championship, with Tipperary unseating the four-time defending champions Kilkenny by 4-17 to 1-18 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin. The championship began on 22 May 2010 and concluded on 5 September 2010.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Pre-championship
The build-up to the opening of the championship was dominated by Kilkenny and the 'drive for five'. ' The Cats' were installed as the bookies' favourites to retain the All-Ireland title for an unprecedented fifth successive occasion. Since 2006 the Kilkenny team had come to be regarded as arguably the greatest hurling team of all-time. In 2007, they surpassed their greatest rivals Cork at the top of the all-time roll of honour, while in 2009 the team equalled the seemingly unbeatable record of four All-Ireland titles in-a-row. Winning an elusive five-in-a-row would close the argument on hurling's greatest team.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Pre-championship
Tipperary were regarded as the primary challengers to Kilkenny's dominance. Many believed that they had the beating of Kilkenny in the previous year's All-Ireland final, however, 'the Cats' pulled away in the last ten minutes to seal the victory. With an extra year of experience many felt that Tipp may finally triumph for the first time in nine years.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Pre-championship
A second tier of teams waited just behind the two clear front-runners. Perennial hopefuls Galway entered the championship as the newly crowned National Hurling League champions and were also seen as a stumbling block on Kilkenny's march to immortality. The westerners were regarded as potential Leinster and maybe even All-Ireland finalists. Cork were buoyed by some impressive displays in the National League. ' The Rebels' defeated both Kilkenny and Tipperary in the group stages and finished the campaign as runners-up. Similarly, Cork enjoyed a trouble-free winter and would enter the championship without any off-field controversy. Waterford were also viewed as a team that had the potential to make life difficult for any of the other top-tier teams.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Pre-championship
Limerick entered the championship in the midst of a crisis. After team manager Justin McCarthy dropped twelve players from the panel in October 2009, many of the remaining players decided to withdraw their services over the course of the next few months. The crisis developed into something of a 'civil war' with the vast majority of the 2009 panel remaining 'on strike', while McCarthy was retained as manager and developed a new panel of players for 2010. The result was Limerick losing all of their National League matches and being relegated to Division 2.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual. It was a knockout tournament with pairings drawn at random in the respective provinces - there were no seeds.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Each match was played as a single leg. If a match was drawn there was a replay. If that match ended in a draw a period of extra time was played, however, if both sides were still level at the end of extra time another replay would take place.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Quarter-final: (1 match) This is a single match between the first two teams drawn from the province of Munster.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The winner of the lone quarter-final joins the other three Munster teams to make up the semi-final pairings.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
First Round: (1 match) This was a single match between the first two teams drawn from the province of Leinster.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Quarter-finals: (3 matches) The winner of the first-round game joins five other Leinster teams to make up the three quarter-final pairings.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the three quarter-finals join Kilkenny, who received a bye to this stage, to make up the semi-final pairings.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Final: (1 match) The winner of the two semi-finals contest this game.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
The qualifiers gave teams defeated in the provincial championships another chance at winning the All-Ireland.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Preliminary Round (1 match): the five teams who fail to reach a provincial semi-final will enter the qualifiers at this stage. The first two teams drawn will play each other in the preliminary round with the winner of that match joining the other three teams in Phase 1.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Phase 1: (2 matches) The winner of the preliminary round and the other three remaining teams will play off. The two winners enter Phase 3.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Phase 2: (2 matches) The two beaten Leinster semi-finalists will play the two beaten Munster semi-finalists. The two winners enter Phase 3.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Phase 3: (2 matches) The four winners of Phase 1 and Phase 2 games meet in Phase 3. The two winners advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Quarter-finals: (2 matches) The beaten Munster and Leinster finalists will play the winners of the Phase 3 qualifiers.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The Munster and Leinster champions will play the winners of the quarter-finals.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format
Final: (1 match) The two semi-final winners will contest the final.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Statistics, Player facts
The following players made their début in the 2010 senior championship:


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Statistics, Player facts
The following players played their last game in the 2010 championship:


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 113th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 5 September 2010 and was a repeat of the 2009 final with Kilkenny taking on Tipperary. Kilkenny were attempting to win a fifth All-Ireland title in-a-row, a feat never achieved in either hurling or Gaelic football. This has been referred to as the "Drive for Five".


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The game was watched by more than 80,000 in the stadium as well as a global audience on TV, radio, etc. The Final attracted the highest ever Irish viewership for an All Ireland Hurling Final peaking at 1.236 million viewers in the final minutes of the match, with an average audience of over one million people during the game which was shown live on RTÉ Two. The match was won by Tipperary by a score of 4–17 to 1–18.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Background
Kilkenny were Leinster champions, having beaten Dublin and Galway to earn that title. They beat Cork in the semi-final on 8 August 2010. Tipperary lost to Cork in the first round of the Munster championship and went into the All Ireland Qualifiers, where they beat Wexford, Offaly and Galway, before beating Waterford in their semi-final on 15 August 2010.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Background
Kilkenny were bidding for their 22nd successive championship win and had not lost a game since losing to Galway in the 2005 All-Ireland semi-final. In 2009 Kilkenny became the first county since Cork in 1941 – 1944 to win the four in a row and were bidding for their 33rd All Ireland title. Tipperary, who lost to Kilkenny by five points in the previous years final were seeking their first All-Ireland title since 2001 and their 26th title in all.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Background
The pre-match betting made Kilkenny favourites, with Bookmaker Paddy Power giving odds of 4/11 on a Kilkenny win, Tipperary were 5/2 to win with a draw at 12/1. Paddy Power also pledged to refund a wide range of losing bets on the match if Kilkenny were beaten, risking a potential five figure refund should Tipperary reverse the form book.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Background
Before the senior final, Kilkenny beat Clare in the minor hurling final.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Team News
Much of the pre-match build-up centred around the fitness of Kilkenny's Henry Shefflin, who had torn his cruciate ligament in the semi final against Cork, an injury which generally takes several months to recover from. Shefflin attended noted physiotherapist, Gerard Hartmann, who specialised in such injuries, and recovered to such a degree that within 3 weeks, he took a full part in a Kilkenny training session watched by around 8,000 fans, without noticeable discomfort.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Team News
Shefflin was then selected to start the All Ireland Final, but due in part to slippery conditions on the day, pulled up after 12 minutes in obvious pain, and had to be substituted. Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy opted to stick with the same team that had defeated Waterford in the semi-final, the team contained eleven of the players that started the 2009 final.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Referee
Waterford-based referee Michael Wadding was named as the referee for the 2010 All-Ireland final on 17 August 2010. The Roanmore club man, who has been refereeing for twenty-one years, has previously taken charge of All-Ireland championship deciders at minor level in 1997 and at under-21 level in 2003. He was also the referee for the 2010 Leinster final between Kilkenny and Galway. Wadding, however, has been involved in three previous All-Ireland finals at senior level – twice as stand-by referee and once as a linesman.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Referee
The GAA opted against appointing high-profile referees as umpires for the final, as had been suggested in the wake of the controversial end to the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final between Meath and Louth. Instead, Wadding will use his usual team of umpires from his native club – Noel Cowman, Pat Byrne, Thomas Martin and Noel Crowley.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match summary, First half
A Henry Shefflin free cancelled out Eoin Kelly's opening score before two more Kelly points were added to by a goal by Lar Corbett after 13 minutes. Corbett shrugged off Noel Hickey to field a long ball from Shane McGrath before lashing the ball to the net from close range.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match summary, First half
John O'Brien added to Tipperary's lead after Brendan Cummins had saved a goal attempt at the other end by TJ Reid, Henry Shefflin lasted only 13 minutes as he succumbed to his cruciate ligament injury, which saw Michael Rice introduced as Tipperary increased their lead to 1–6 to 0–3 after 19 minutes following Brendan Maher and Eoin Kelly points. Richie Power hit 1–5 of Kilkenny's remaining first-half tally of 1–6 including a 32nd-minute goal after Eoin Larkin's thrust into the Tipperary defence. Tipperary's six-point lead of the 30th minute dwindled to one point at half time as Kilkenny's dominance began to translate into scores. Tipperary led by 1–10 to 1–9 at half time.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match summary, Second half
TJ Reid leveled the scores straight after the interval but Tipperary responded with 2–1 in four minutes as Eoin Kelly's free was added to by goals from Lar Corbett and Noel McGrath. Corbett lashed his second goal to the roof of the net after being set up by a pass on the run from Noel McGrath. McGrath's instinct to follow up a long ball into the Kilkenny goalmouth proved inspired as he scrambled the ball to the net from close range for his goal.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match summary, Second half
Kilkenny then hit four unanswered points to leave one point between the sides with 16 minutes left. Substitute Seamus Callinan then fired over successive points in the 59th and 62nd minutes, followed shortly afterwards by an Eoin Kelly free to extend Tipperary's lead to six points. Richie Power and John Mulhall then added Kilkenny points before substitutes Benny Dunne and then Séamus Hennessy scored long-range points for Tipperary . Lar Corbett then got his third goal in injury time from a pass from Patrick Maher to seal the county's 26th Liam MacCarthy Cup.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match summary, Second half
Tipperary's final tally of 4–17 is the biggest total ever scored against Kilkenny in a 70-minute final (the 5–17 for Tipperary in 1971 was in an 80-minute decider). Lar Corbett became only the second player in modern times and first since Eddie O'Brien in 1970 for Cork to score a hat-trick in a final. Tipperary's win continued their unique achievement of having won a Senior Hurling All-Ireland in every decade since the GAA's foundation in 1884.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Trophy presentation
This was the first final in many years where there was no pitch invasion by the fans at the full-time whistle. This was because of a new barricade which prevents fans on Hill 16 from entering the pitch. The trophy was presented from the Hogan stand to Tipperary captain Eoin Kelly by GAA president Christy Cooney. Immediately after Kelly's acceptance speech, Tipperary substitute Pat Kerwick sang 'The Galtee Mountain Boy'. The Tipperary team then paraded the cup around the stadium in a lap of honour.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Man of the Match
Lar Corbett was named the All Ireland hurling final 'Man of the Match' by the Sunday Game panel. Other nominees for the award were Tipperary left back Pádraic Maher and centre forward Noel McGrath. The award was presented to Corbett at the Tipperary victory banquet in Dublin's Burlington Hotel on the night of the final, and was judged by panel members Dónal O'Grady, Pete Finnerty and Michael Duignan.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Kilkenny manager Brian Cody admitted that his Kilkenny team were second best to a 'driven, spirited, genuine and full of hurling' Tipperary in the All-Ireland final,'We have no excuses and no begrudgery in the slightest. No doubt about it, the better team won the All-Ireland final' he said. Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy was delighted with his team's performance saying "Powerful. Great bunch. they are three years in the journey, there has been a lot of twists and turns and highs and lows. First week in June and a lot of people said we didn’t do qualifiers.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
I think we saw today what this team could do. We felt today that we were in a very good position. Whether you like it or not, five-in-a-row brings its own pressures. We needed 33 players to do this. I am delighted for that group because I feel they have shipped a lot of criticism unfairly. I am a Tipperary man and a proud one and we put everything we had into this".


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Tipperary goalkeeper Brendan Cummins said "This time last year we were sinking, we were really disappointed after losing the final. This year makes it all worthwhile, I have huge belief in this group, huge trust in this family, I just knew the lads and I knew by the looks on their faces in that losing dressing-room last year. "My aim all year was to win the semi-final because I felt if we won the semi-final, no one would stop us in the final.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Kilkenny are a super team, but I knew if the guys got back into that arena after what happened last year they wouldn't leave it go." Hat trick scorer Lar Corbett said after the game "It is no good coming up here and scoring three goals and losing to Kilkenny, the win, that is what it is all about. It is the whole year wrapped up in 70 minutes. What can you say? It is unbelievable".


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Sunday Game analyst Cyril Farrell thought that Henry Shefflin's injury was a serious setback for Kilkenny, writing in the Irish Independent he said "credit where it's due, this was a marvellous performance by Tipp, they did to Kilkenny what the Cats have done to so many teams over the years by keeping the pace and intensity at a high level and by crowding the ball carrier".


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Former Tipperary player and manager Nicky English writing in the Irish Times thoughtthat Tipperary got a day when everything went right and the few breaks that any team needs,  "Tipperary were quite magnificent in the intensity and skill they brought to Croke Park yesterday to finally prove that Kilkenny, a great team, weren’t invincible".


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Former Tipperary manager Bab's Keating, speaking on Newstalk's Breakfast Show defended his criticism of Liam Sheedy earlier during the season and claimed the Tipperary management has benefited from his controversial second stint in charge. "Maybe I passed a few comments about Liam Sheedy and the management structure based on what I went through in Tipperary and I made difficult decisions which might have helped Liam Sheedy in the success he had, Keating also stated that the win had dwarfed his own managerial victories and that of Nicky English in 2001. "It probably compares up there if not ahead of those wins in so far as that everyone feared Kilkenny and their dominance. This was a great watermark for the game of hurling."


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Civic reception
The Tipperary team arrived back to Thurles by train the next evening after the traditional stop at Our Ladies Children's Hospital with the Cup earlier in the day. They then boarded an open top bus for the journey to the reception at Semple Stadium where an estimated 40,000 supporters turned out to welcome the team home to a rainy Thurles. There was another huge crowd in Mullinahone the night after when Eoin Kelly, the first southern Tipperary man to captain Tipperary to All-Ireland senior success, brought the cup home.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Awards
The nominations for the 2010 GAA All Stars Awards were announced on 24 September 2010. Tipperary had 14 players nominated for awards, winning captain Eoin Kelly was going for his sixth All-Star while final hat-trick scorer Lar Corbett was hoping to pick up his second award. Henry Shefflin was on course for a record 10th All-Star after also being nominated for a ninth successive time along with 11 other Kilkenny players. He was hoping to surpass the record jointly held by his fellow county-man DJ Carey and former Kerry footballer Pat Spillane, whom he joined on nine awards in 2009.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Awards
At the awards ceremony on 15 October 2010, Tipperary won six All Star awards, Brendan Cummins, Paul Curran, Brendan Maher, Noel McGrath, Lar Corbett and Eoin Kelly won awards, while Kilkenny won five awards, Jackie Tyrrell, Tommy Walsh, JJ Delaney, Michael Fennelly and Richie Power. Lar Corbett was named All Stars Hurler of the year while Brendan Maher collected the All Stars Young hurler of the year award.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Awards
Tipperary's Lar Corbett and Brendan Maher were shortlisted, alongside Kilkenny's Michael Fennelly and Tommy Walsh, for the GPA Hurler of the Year award for 2010. On 5 November, Corbett was named as the GPA Hurler of the year for 2010, and will receive a new Opel Astra car worth €25,000. Corbett and Maher were joined in the nominations for the GPA team of the year by ten of their Tipperary teammates, Kilkenny had ten nominations in total. Tipperary won seven places on the GPA team of the year, all of their All Star award winners in addition to Pádraic Maher who was named at left-half back, replacing Kilkenny's JJ Delaney in the only difference to the 2010 All Star team.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Aftermath
On 11 September 2010, six days after the Senior final, the Tipperary Under-21 Hurling team completed the double by winning the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship against Galway by 5–22 to 0–12 at Semple Stadium to claim their ninth title. Five members of the victorious senior starting team started for Tipperary in the Under-21 final, Pádraic Maher, Michael Cahill, Brendan Maher, Noel McGrath, and Patrick Maher. Senior substitutes Séamus Hennessy, Brian O'Meara and Michael Heffernan also started for the Under-21 team.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Aftermath
On 7 October 2010 it was announced that Liam Sheedy would be stepping down from his position as the Tipperary manager. Sheedy and his selectors, who found themselves working up to 16 hours a day during their three-year term, cited work commitments as the reason for stepping down and Sheedy thanked the board for their "top class" support. In December 2010, Sheedy was named the Philips Sports Manager of the Year for 2010 for managing Tipperary to their All Ireland win. In November 2010, Tipperary half back Declan Fanning announced his retirement from inter-county hurling. In December 2010, Kilkenny midfielder Derek Lyng also announced his retirement from inter-county hurling after nine years.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship
The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship began on 31 July 2010. Dublin were the winners, with a convincing win over Tyrone in the final.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final
The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured  Dublin and Tyrone. This was Dublin's fourth final and Tyrone's first. On the three previous occasions Dublin had reached the final in 2003, 2004 and 2009, they had finished as runners-up. In 2010 they would win  their first title. On their way to the final, Tyrone had knocked out Cork in the quarter-final, interrupting their monopoly of the All-Ireland for one year. However Tyrone proved to be no match for Dublin in the final. At half-time Dublin led by 2–8 to 0–5. With twenty minutes remaining, Dublin led by 16 points and that margin would separate the two teams at the finish. Sinéad Aherne scored 2–7 to claim the Player of the Match award.


2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams
Team:1 Clíodhna O'Connor2 Rachel Ruddy3 Avril Cluxton4 Maria Kavanagh5 Siobhán McGrath6 Sorcha Furlong7 Gemma Fay8 Denise Masterson (c)9 Niamh McEvoy (Parnells) 10 Mary Nevin11 Amy McGuinness12 Lindsay Peat13 Lyndsey Davey14 Sinéad Aherne 15 Elaine Kelly


2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams
Substitutes:B. Finlay for Kelly (46)N. Hyland for Nevin (52)Noëlle Healy for McGuinness (56)Niamh McEvoy (St. Sylvester's) for Niamh McEvoy (57)  C. Barrett for Fay (57)


2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams
Team:1 Shannon Lynch2 Eimear Teague3 Maura Kelly4 Sinead McLaughlin5 Maria Donnelly6 Neamh Woods7 Lynda Donnelly8 Sarah Donnelly (c)9 Shannon Quinn10 Cathy Donnelly11 Gemma Begley12 Aisling O'Kane13 Catriona McGahan14 Sarah Connolly 15 Joline Donnelly


2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams
Substitutes:Nina Murphy for Connolly (14)Rosin Rafferty for Teague (half-time)Orla O'Neill for McGahan (44)Marie Gallagher for M. Donnelly (44)Clare Scullion for O'Kane (56)


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
The All-Ireland Under 21 Football Championship is an under 21 Gaelic football inter county competition between the 32 counties of Ireland. Four competitions are contested in each province and the winners of each provincial championship enters the all-Ireland series.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
The 2010 Bord Gáis Energy GAA Hurling All-Ireland Under-21 Championship was the 47th staging of Ireland's hurling knock-out competition for players aged between 18 and 21. The final was held at Semple Stadium, Thurles on 11 September 2010. Tipperary won the game by 5-22 to 0-12 against Galway to claim their ninth title.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Overview
The All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship of 2010 will be run on a provincial basis as usual. It will be a knockout tournament with pairings drawn at random in the respective provinces - there will be no seeds.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Overview
Each match will be played as a single leg. If a match is drawn a period of extra time will be played, however, if both sides were still level at the end of extra time a replay will take place.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Format, Leinster Championship
Quarter-finals: (2 matches) These are two lone matches between the first four teams drawn from the province of Leinster. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winners advance to the semi-finals.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Format, Leinster Championship
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The two winners of the two quarter-final games join the two remaining Leinster teams, who received a bye to this stage, to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winners advance to the final.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Format, Leinster Championship
Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the All-Ireland semi-final.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Format, Munster Championship
Quarter-final: (1 match) This is a single match between the first two teams drawn from the province of Munster. One team is eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the semi-finals.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Format, Munster Championship
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the lone quarter-final game join the three remaining Munster teams, who received a bye to this stage, to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winners advance to the final.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Format, Munster Championship
Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the All-Ireland semi-final.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Format, Ulster Championship
Quarter-final: (1 match) This is a single match between the first two teams drawn from the province of Ulster. One team is eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the semi-finals.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Format, Ulster Championship
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the lone quarter-final game join the three remaining Ulster teams, who received a bye to this stage, to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winners advance to the final.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The Championship, Format, Ulster Championship
Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the All-Ireland semi-final.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
The 2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played at Semple Stadium, Thurles on 11 September 2010 to determine the winners of the 2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 47th season of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion teams of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Tipperary of Munster and Galway of Connacht, with Tipperary winning by 5-22 to 0-12.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
The All-Ireland final between Tipperary and Galway was the fourth All-Ireland final meeting between the two teams. Both sides were hoping to claim their ninth All-Ireland title with Tipperary hoping for their first win since 1995 and Galway hoping for their first title since 2007.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
Tipperary started the game with a goal rush. Barely a minute had elapsed when Brian O'Meara banged in the first, and two minutes later, it was John O'Dwyer who added a second. Barry Daly got Galway off the mark in the sixth minute, however, Tipperary opened up a 2-4 to 0-2 lead by the 13th minute. Two minutes later they struck for a third goal when Seán Carey drilled a low shot to the bottom corner of the net. Galway enjoyed a productive spell and finished the half strongly, with David Burke powering over a couple of long range frees to narrow the gap to seven.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
Tipperary stretched their 3-7 to 0-9 lead after the interval with Noel McGrath and O'Meara scoring some excellent points. James Logue also made another excellent save to deny Gerard Kelly, who fired in an angled shot on a breakaway raid. Patrick Maher subsequently sliced his way through the Galway defence to fire home Tipperary's fourth goal. Galway were already in need of a goal, but they could find no way past Tipp 'keeper Logue. Galway were caught out once again at the back, when Noel McGrath’s long range free deceived goalkeeper Finnegan and went all the way to the net. Galway finished with 14-men after centre forward Niall Quinn received a straight red card seven minutes from the end as Tipperary added several more points.


2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
Tipperary's All-Ireland victory was their first in fifteen years. The win gave them their ninth All-Ireland title over all and put them in joint third position with Galway on the all-time roll of honour.


2010 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team
The 2010 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Pacific-10 Conference teams for the 2010 Pacific-10 Conference football season. The Oregon Ducks won the conference, posting a 9–0 conference record. Oregon then lost to SEC champion Auburn Tigers in the BCS National Championship game 22 to 19. Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck was voted Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year. Oregon State defensive tackle Stephen Paea was voted Pat Tillman Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year.


2010 All-Pro Team
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2010 All-Pro Team
There are three 2010 All-Pro Teams—one each named by the Associated Press (AP), Pro Football Writers Association (PFWA), and Sporting News—for performance in the 2010 NFL season. While none of these have the official imprimatur of the NFL (whose official recognition is nomination to the 2011 Pro Bowl), they are included (separately) in the NFL Record and Fact Book. Any player selected to any of the teams can be described as an "All-Pro."


2010 All-Pro Team
The AP team, with first- and second-team selections, was chosen by a national panel of 50 NFL writers; the Sporting News selection process uses a panel of 50 NFL coaches and executives, while the PFWA team is chosen by polling its 300+ members.


2010 All-SEC football team
The 2010 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by the Associated Press (AP) and the conference coaches for the 2010 Southeastern Conference football season.


2010 All-SEC football team
The Auburn Tigers won the conference, beating the South Carolina Gamecocks 56 to 17 in the SEC Championship game. The Tigers then won a national championship, defeating the Pac-12 champion Oregon Ducks 22 to 19 in the 2011 BCS National Championship Game. Auburn led the conference with four consensus first-team All-SEC selections by both the AP and the coaches; LSU was second with three.


2010 All-SEC football team
Auburn quarterback Cam Newton, a unanimous AP selection, won the Heisman Trophy and was voted AP SEC Offensive Player of the Year. Auburn defensive tackle Nick Fairley, also a unanimous AP selection, won the Lombardi Award and was voted AP SEC Defensive Player of the Year. LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson won the Bednarik Award.


2010 All-SEC football team, Key
Bold = Consensus first-team selection by both the coaches and AP


2010 Allan Cup
The 2010 Allan Cup is the 2010 edition of the Canadian National Championship of Senior ice hockey. This tournament will mark the 102nd year that the Allan Cup has been awarded. The 2010 tournament was hosted by the City of Fort St. John, British Columbia and the Fort St. John Flyers.


2010 Allan Cup, National Playdowns, Pacific, Brackets
With Fort St. John already in the 2010 Allan Cup as hosts, it will be up to Powell River and Whitehorse to play a series for the British Columbia seed to the National Championship.


2010 Allan Cup, National Playdowns, Western, Brackets
In Manitoba, Steinbach and Manitoba will square-off in a best-of-seven series to determine who faces Southeast for the Manitoba crown. In Saskatchewan, Paradise Hill and Lloydminster face-off for the Saskatchewan Sr. AAA championship. The winners of these two provinces will face each other to determine the Manitoba/Saskatchewan seed to the 2010 Allan Cup.


2010 Allan Cup, National Playdowns, Central, Brackets
In Southern Ontario, the top three teams of Major League Hockey will play a double round robin and then the top two teams from the round robin will play a best-of-7 series to determine an Ontario Hockey Association champion. In Northwestern Ontario, a one-game per opponent round robin will determine a one-game runoff for the Hockey Northwestern Ontario crown. When the two teams are determined, they will meet in a best-of-3 series to determine the Ontario seed to the 2010 Allan Cup.


2010 Allan Cup, National Playdowns, Central, Brackets
(*) Thunder Bay replaces Fort Frances, Fort Frances found to have an ineligible player.


2010 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad
The 2010 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 42nd edition of the Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2009 ATP Tour. It took place at the Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad, Switzerland, from 25 July through 1 August 2010.


2010 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw


2010 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad, Finals, Doubles
Johan Brunström /  Jarkko Nieminen defeated  Marcelo Melo /  Bruno Soares, 6–3, 6–7(4–7), [11–9]


2010 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad – Doubles
Marco Chiudinelli and Michael Lammer were the defending champions, but they were eliminated by Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman already in the first round. Unseeded Johan Brunström and Jarkko Nieminen won in the final 6–3, 6–7(4–7), [11–9], against 4th-seeded Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares.


2010 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad – Singles
Thomaz Bellucci was the defending champion, however he lost to Marco Chiudinelli in the first round. Nicolás Almagro won in the final 7–5, 6–1, against Richard Gasquet.


2010 Allsvenskan
The 2010 Allsvenskan, part of the 2010 Swedish football season, was the 86th Allsvenskan season. It began on 13 March 2010 and ended on 7 November 2010. AIK were the defending champions. Malmö FF secured their 16th title in the last round after winning with 2–0 against Mjällby AIF.


2010 Allsvenskan, League table, Positions by round
Note: Some matches are played out of phase with the corresponding round, positions are corrected in hindsight.


2010 Altazor Awards
The eleventh Altazor Awards took place on April 27, 2010, at the Teatro Teletón.


2010 Altona state by-election
A by-election was held for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Altona on 13 February 2010, following the sudden resignation of state Transport Minister Lynne Kosky on 18 January, who cited a family member's health as the reason for her decision to leave politics. Altona is widely considered a safe Labor seat, Kosky won over 60% of the primary vote at the 2006 state election.


2010 Altona state by-election
The Labor Party's Jill Hennessy, a lawyer who sits on the board of Western Health, won the seat despite a 13 percent swing away from Labor. The Liberals and Greens went up by 11 percent and 2 percent respectively. Hennessy retained the seat in the November 2010 state election.


2010 Altona state by-election, Candidates
The following candidates nominated; they are listed in ballot-paper order.


2010 Amarillo Venom season
The 2010 Amarillo Venom season was the team's seventh season as a professional indoor football franchise and first in the Indoor Football League (IFL). One of twenty-five teams competing in the IFL for the 2010 season, the Amarillo, Texas-based West Texas Roughnecks were members of the Lonestar West Division of the Intense Conference.


2010 Amarillo Venom season
With the af2 breaking up and its larger market teams moving to Arena Football 1, the Dusters were forced to find a new league. Owner Randy Sanders applied for his team's spot in the Indoor Football League (IFL), and they were accepted as an expansion franchise.


2010 Amarillo Venom season
The Venom lost to the Arkansas Diamonds 34-46 in the Intense Conference Semifinals.


2010 Amarillo Venom season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated June 26, 201023 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


2010 Amazonas gubernatorial election
The Amazonas gubernatorial election was held on October 3, 2010 to elect the next Governor of Amazonas. The PMN's Omar Aziz comfortably won reelection.


2010 Amber Valley Borough Council election
The 2010 Amber Valley Borough Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Amber Valley Borough Council in Derbyshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2010 Amber Valley Borough Council election, Campaign
15 seats were contested in the election by a total of 50 candidates.


2010 Amber Valley Borough Council election, Campaign
The Conservatives campaigned on their record of controlling the council for the previous 10 years, pointing to keeping council tax increases low and plans to regenerate local towns. However Labour pledged to appoint people as area managers who would be a contact point for people to bring any problems and planned to use compulsory purchase orders to bring empty properties into use. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats targeted seats in Belper and Duffield campaigning on regeneration, recycling and litter, while the British National Party hoped to increase on the 2 seats they held in Heanor.


2010 Amber Valley Borough Council election, Election result
The results saw no change in the party balance as Labour held the 8 seats they had been defending and the Conservatives the other 7 seats, meaning the Conservatives remained in control of the council. Neither the Liberal Democrats or British National Party won any seats, with the British National Party vote dropping in Heanor where it held 2 seats.


2010 America East Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2010 America East Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 26-28 at Varsity Field in Vestal, New York. The top four regular season finishers of the league's six teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, third-seeded Stony Brook defeated fourth-seeded Albany, 4-2, to win its third tournament championship. As a result, Stony Brook received the America East's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Tournament.


2010 America East Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage only. They then played in a double-elimination format. In the first round, the one and four seeds were matched up in one game, while the two and three seeds were matched up in the other.


2010 America East Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Outstanding Player
Stony Brook catcher Pat Cantwell was named Most Outstanding Player.


2010 America East Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 America East Men's Basketball Tournament was held from March 4–7 at Chase Arena on the University of Hartford campus. The final was held at Patrick Gym in Burlington, VT on March 13. As winners, the Vermont Catamounts win an automatic berth to the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament for the fourth time as a member of the America East conference, and first since 2005. Vermont was given the 16th seed in the West Regional of the NCAA Tournament and will face the #1 seed Syracuse Orange in a game played on March 19.


2010 America East Men's Basketball Tournament
As winners of the regular season championship the Stony Brook Seawolves claimed an automatic berth to the 2010 National Invitation Tournament, seeded at #8, the Seawolves took on #1 seeded Illinois Fighting Illini at home on March 17. The Boston University Terriers also gained a bid to the 2010 CBI, were given the #4 seed in the West Region, and faced the Oregon State Beavers on March 17 in Corvallis, OR.


2010 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament
The 2010 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament was the 11th edition of the America East Conference Men's Lacrosse Tournament and took place from May 4 to May 8 at the higher seeds home field. The winner of the tournament received the America East Conference's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship. Four teams from the America East conference will compete in the single elimination tournament. The seeds were based upon the teams' regular season conference record.


2010 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament, Standings
Only the top four teams in the America East conference advanced to the America East Conference Tournament.


2010 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament, All-Tournament
All-Tournament team is made up of the best players at each position from throughout the tournament. The All-Tournament team consisted of the following players:


2010 America's Cup
The 33rd America's Cup between Société Nautique de Genève defending with team Alinghi against Golden Gate Yacht Club, and their racing team BMW Oracle Racing was the subject of extensive court action and litigation, surpassing in acrimony even the controversial 1988 America's Cup. Since the two parties were unable to agree otherwise, the match took place as a one-on-one deed of gift match in gigantic, specialized multi-hull racing yachts with no other clubs or teams participating.


2010 America's Cup
The Golden Gate Yacht Club swept the two races as their yacht USA 17 powered by a  rigid wing-sail proved to be significantly faster than Société Nautique de Genève's yacht Alinghi 5. The litigation leading up to the match included which club would be the challenger, the dates and venue for the regattas, certain rules governing the regattas (in particular the measurement rules), and the construction of the boats.


2010 America's Cup
The Americans won back the Cup after they last lost it in 1995.


2010 America's Cup
When Société Nautique de Genève (SNG) successfully defended the trophy in the 32nd America's Cup, they immediately accepted a challenge from Club Náutico Español de Vela (CNEV) a Spanish organization formed expressly for the purpose of challenging for the cup and keeping the regatta in Valencia. When SNG and CNEV published their protocol for the 33rd America's Cup challenge, there was widespread consternation over its terms, with some teams and yacht clubs calling it the worst protocol in the history of the event.


2010 America's Cup
The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) filed its own challenge for the Cup and then filed a court case asking that CNEV be removed as Challenger of Record as being unqualified under the Deed of Gift. GGYC also asked that it be named as the rightful Challenger of Record, being the first club to file a conforming challenge. There followed a long and acrimonious legal battle, with the New York Court of Appeals finally deciding on April 2, 2009, that CNEV did not qualify as valid challenger, and that the GGYC was thus the rightful Challenger of Record.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the Challenger of Record
Following its successful defense of the Cup on July 3, 2007, Société Nautique de Genève (SNG) accepted a challenge for the 33rd America's Cup from Club Náutico Español de Vela (CNEV), a newly formed yacht club, created for the purpose of challenging for the Cup. CNEV had no boats, no clubhouse, only four members (vice presidents of the Spanish Sailing Federation), and had never run a regatta of any type. On July 5, 2007 SNG and CNEV released the protocols for the next Cup regatta. The protocol was the subject of much criticism, with some teams and yacht clubs calling it the worst protocol in the history of the event.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the Challenger of Record
The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) initiated legal action against SNG in the New York Supreme Court (the court of first instance) alleging violations of the Deed of Gift of the America's Cup. (New York courts decide disputes regarding the terms of the Deed of Gift because the America's Cup is held under the terms of a charitable legal trust established under New York law).


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the Challenger of Record
The suit alleged that CNEV did not meet the terms of the Deed of Gift as a legitimate yacht club that would qualify to be the challenger of record, in particular because it had never held an annual regatta, which, according to GGYC, was a requirement under the Deed of Gift. At the same time, GGYC issued a challenge for the Cup.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the Challenger of Record
Because of the precedent set in the 1988 America's Cup where the San Diego Yacht Club defended against a monohull yacht with a catamaran, any non mutual-consent challenger must specify the largest multi-hull possible under the terms of the Deed of Gift, if it is to have any chance of winning. Consequently, GGYC specified its yacht as having a 90-ft length-waterline, and 90-ft beam. However, GGYC also stated that they wanted "consensual negotiations in the spirit of the Deed of Gift toward a Protocol comparable in scope, and similar in terms, to that used for the 32nd America's Cup."


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the Challenger of Record
As the legal proceedings progressed, SNG continued to work with the other teams on the protocol, and by December 2007 twelve challengers had met the entry deadline and were preparing to race in a multi-challenge 33rd America's Cup. But despite extensive negotiations and proposals made by both sides, GGYC and SNG were unable to agree upon a mutual consent Protocol.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the Challenger of Record
The lawsuit therefore continued and the court ruled in favor of GGYC on November 27, 2007, holding that CNEV was not a valid challenger, and declaring GGYC the proper and legal challenger. SNG was instructed to meet GGYC's challenge under the Deed of Gift terms unless they could agree on other terms by mutual consent. This order was confirmed on March 13, 2008


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the Challenger of Record
SNG appealed the decision against CNEV, and on July 29, 2008, the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2008 reversed the lower court ruling in a 3–2 decision. The lower court had ruled in favor of GGYC because CNEV had not held an annual regatta when it filed its challenge for the Cup. But the Appellate Division ruled that the phrase "having for its annual regatta," as used in the Deed of Gift, is ambiguous. Therefore, CNEV could satisfy the requirement by "intend[ing] to hold an annual regatta and do[ing] so prior to the date of its proposed match."


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the Challenger of Record
Pending the final outcome of the litigation, SNG had set a deadline of December 15, 2008 for entries in the 33rd America's Cup regatta. On December 8, 2008 GGYC sent a letter to SNG to inform them that GGYC would not submit an entry since it did not consider SNG's regatta "a legitimate America's Cup" and vowed to focus on winning the legal case in the New York Court of Appeals.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the Challenger of Record
A number of organizations submitted amicus curiae briefs to the court. In particular, on December 31, 2008, the New York Yacht Club (NYYC), the oldest and longest holder of the America's Cup, filed a brief supporting GGYC's position.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the Challenger of Record
On April 2, 2009, the New York Court of Appeals in Albany, New York (the court of last instance) decided 6–0 in favor of GGYC, holding that a yacht club could not qualify as challenger unless it had held at least one annual regatta prior to its challenge.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the dates and the venue
After the April 2009 ruling GGYC said it would "immediately seek to negotiate with the Defender for a conventional, multi-challenger America's Cup in monohulls." However SNG indicated that they would not negotiate for a multi-challenger regatta and would fall back to a default Deed of Gift match, that is three races over a 40- (first and third race) or 39-nautical mile (second race) course between GGYC's trimaran BMW Oracle Racing 90 and SNG's catamaran Alinghi 5. Indeed, despite various calls for negotiation, it had been apparent for some time that the provisions of the Deed of Gift would likely govern the match, and, further, that the parties did not agree on the interpretation of certain provisions of the Deed of Gift or of the court decision.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the dates and the venue
In March 2008, the parties had attempted to agree on dates for the races. SNG took the position that it was entitled to a 10-month period to prepare for the race and, because it was based in the Northern Hemisphere, the races could not take place until May 2009. GGYC took the position that the 10-month notice period should run from the November 2007, when the court of first instance ruled that CNEV was not a valid  challenger, so the races should take place in October 2008.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the dates and the venue
Despite various attempts, the parties were unable to agree on the dates and on May 12, 2008, the New York Supreme Court issued an order setting the date at 10 months after that date. The 10-month delay was held to have been suspended during the appeals process and was reinstated by the final April 2, 2009 decision of the New York Court of Appeals. However, SNG refused to accept a race in February 2010, arguing again that the deed did not permit racing in the Northern Hemisphere until May. GGYC forced a court session and, on May 14, 2009, the court ruled from the bench that the race must take place in February 2010, unless another date was mutually agreed to.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the dates and the venue
Though the date was now set, dispute persisted regarding the venue. SNG argued that the April 2, 2009 court decision specifying "that the location of the match shall be in Valencia, Spain or any other location selected by SNG, provided SNG notify GGYC in writing not less than six months in advance of the date set for the first challenge match race of the location it has selected for the challenge match races," allowed it to choose a venue in the Northern Hemisphere. GGYC maintained that without mutual consent, the defender must specify a deed-legal venue, which in February would mean the Southern Hemisphere. Under the terms of the Court order, if SNG did not specify a venue six months before the match, the venue would default to Valencia.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the dates and the venue
In August 2009 SNG announced that the event would be based in the Northern Hemisphere at Al Hamra Village in the Ras al-Khaimah emirate of the United Arab Emirates.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the dates and the venue
GGYC immediately replied that Ras al-Khaimah was not a Deed Legal Venue. SNG maintained its position. GGYC filed a motion in court to request "that the Court issue an Order directing that the 33rd America's Cup be held in Valencia, Spain, in February 2010, unless the parties mutually consent otherwise." According to GGYC, Valencia was mentioned in the April 2 court order as an exception, because both parties had indicated that they agreed to Valencia.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the dates and the venue
Unless GGYC agreed to some other location in the Northern Hemisphere, the race must take place in the Southern Hemisphere, because the venue must comply with the Deed of Gift. Indeed, said GGYC, the expression "or any other location" in the April 2 court order could not be interpreted literally, because it could not extend to a venue like the Colorado River or Walden Pond. Given that the literal meaning could not apply, the order must be interpreted consistent with the Deed of Gift.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the dates and the venue
On October 27, 2009, Justice Shirley Kornreich ruled from the bench that Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates was not a deed legal venue and that the race must take place either in Valencia or in a Southern Hemisphere venue. In early November, SNG wrote to the court stating that it would hold the race in February in Valencia, Spain., and at the same time, they appealed the decision to the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. The appeal was denied on December 15, 2009.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
On July 14, 2009, GGYC filed a motion with the court asking that SNG be found in contempt for changing the rules for the match in secret to allow them to build a boat with powered winches and moveable ballast which were allegedly illegal under the SNG rules that should apply to the race.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
SNG filed a competing motion asking that GGYC be disqualified as a challenger if they did not produce a Custom House Certificate for their challenging yacht within 14 days, and it disputed the allegations made by GGYC, arguing that the use of powered winches and moveable ballast was common for high performance catamarans racing under SNG's rules, and that the April 2009 version of the SNG rules should apply, since it was only on that date that GGYC was recognized as Challenger of Record.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
On July 29, 2009, the court issued its decision regarding these matters. The court refused to hold Alinghi in contempt. The court ruled that the Deed of Gift does not specify any restrictions on the construction of the yachts. Provided that the boats are propelled by sails, auxiliary power can be used for winches etc. Moveable ballast can also be used. Thus Alinghi prevailed on those points. The court also ordered a hearing in order to determine the date on which GGYC could reasonably be compelled to produce the Custom House Certificate for its yacht. On September 2, 2009, GGYC filed an appeal against this decision.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
On September 18, 2009, pursuant to its July 29, 2009, decision and following the hearing arising from that decision, the court ruled that the design and construction of the challenger's vessel was not frozen at the time of the challenge. Thus GGYC could continue to modify and to develop its yacht. The Custom House Registry referred to in the Deed of Gift (now called a Certificate of Documentation-COD) had to be delivered two weeks prior to the first race. The Court stated: "It is not only advances in technology, but the unsportsmanlike behavior of Golden Gate that has resulted in substantially reducing SNG's advantage as originally contemplated by the Deed. Nonetheless, Golden Gate's actions are not contrary to law or sanctionable in this limited forum."


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
On August 6, 2009, SNG sent a letter to GGYC, containing the measurement procedures for the yachts. GGYC did not accept these procedures, in particular because the SNG procedure would include the rudders in the LWL measurement and thus result in GGYC's boat BMW Oracle Racing 90 being disqualified. GGYC requested the court to declare that the measurement procedure proposed by SNG was not valid (in particular the rudders should not be included when measuring length on the load waterline). SNG maintained its position. On October 30, 2009, the court ruled that the rudders should not be included for the measurement of the Load Water Line Length (GGYC's position). SNG appealed that ruling, but the appeal was denied on December 15, 2009.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
GGYC also argued that the rules that should apply to the race must be the SNG rules that were in force when GGYC filed its challenge. Otherwise, said GGYC, SNG could arbitrarily change the rules so as to make it impossible for the challenger to win. For example, said GGYC, the modified rules could specify that the challenger would have to race while dragging an anchor.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
According to GGYC, it did not make sense to envisage that the rules could be changed after the challenge was issued, since the challenger based its challenge on SNG's rules at the time of the challenge. GGYC also challenged certain provisions of the agreement between ISAF and SNG, in particular concerning the powers of the jury.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
But on October 30, 2009, Justice Kornreich declined to approve a renew and re-argue of her July 29 decision holding that SNG could change its club rules, but she said that the decision only dealt with Rules 49–54, and that everything else about rules changes was dicta (meaning that it was just discussion—not essential to the decision about Rules 49–54 and can not be used as precedent). Further, the court ordered the nomination of a panel of three independent experts who had sat on an America's Cup jury in the past in order to resolve certain outstanding issues.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
On the basis of the unanimous opinion of those three experts, on November 19, 2009, judge Kornreich ruled that: (1) all ballast, whether moveable or not, must be included when measuring the Load Water Line; (2) it would be safe to hold the race in Valencia in February, (3) the Notice of Race and other rules could be issued as little as 16 days before the race, but the matter is moot because SNG had already published the Notice of Race; that Notice of Race could be modified by SNG but any modifications could be challenged by GGYC and would be reviewed by the jury; (4) the question of when the panel of jurors is customarily appointed is moot because the jury would soon be named; (5) the arrangements between ISAF and SNG regarding appointment of the jury appeared acceptable.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
On December 4, 2009, it was announced that the international jury had been named.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
The Notice of Race that was published on November 10, 2009, specified, among other things, that the races would not take place if the wind exceeded 15 knots (28 km/h) or the waves were taller than 1 meter. A draft amended Notice of Race and draft Sailing instructions were published on January 8, 2010. The final versions were published on January 19, 2010.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
These were immediately challenged by GGYC, who alleged that SNG had inappropriately re-inserted Racing Rule 53 ("Skin Friction"); set the starting time for the races despite the Deed of Gift's requirement that this be agreed by mutual consent; set wind and wave limits to favor its own yacht; changed the latest draft of the Notice of Race to ban certain wind detection equipment now being used by GGYC's yacht and permitted under all earlier drafts of the Notice of Race; inappropriately re-arranged the hierarchy of the applicable rules so that the Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions would, in the case ofconflict, overrule the Racing Rules of Sailing.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
GGYC requested that the International Jury be convened as soon as possible to negate or revise the biased provisions before the races. GGYC subsequently requested that the International Jury also consider certain issues related to the measurement rules. On February 2, 2010, the International Jury rejected GGYC's requests for redress regarding the measurement procedure. The jury held that the maximum amount of moveable ballast had to be on board when the boat was measured and that it had to be equally distributed laterally, but that no other restrictions would apply.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
On the same date, the Jury decided that SNG, as organizing authority, did have the right to set the start time; that the Race Officer would have the discretion to determine whether weather conditions on any given day were safe and fair so that racing could take place; and that GGYC's wind detection equipment was allowed. It ordered the Notice of Race to be modified to make it clear that the Deed of Gift took precedence and that the Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions could not override the Racing Rules of Sailing.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the rules of the match
On January 28, 2010, GGYC announced that it had requested that the International Jury allow it to employ a friction-reduction system that involved discharging liquids in the water. GGYC stated that friction-reduction systems had been explicitly allowed at SNG's request, so it was not appropriate for SNG to attempt to restrict such systems. According to SNG, the discharge of liquids by GGYC's yacht would violate reasonable environmental protection measures incorporated in the Sailing Instructions. On February 2, 2010, the International Jury decided that friction-reduction systems would be allowed provided that applicable environmental laws were not violated.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the construction of the boats
On December 22, 2009, GGYC sent a letter to SNG expressing concern about SNG's apparent interpretation of the "constructed in country" provisions of the Deed of Gift. According to GGYC, it appeared that SNG's team intended to use sails constructed in Minden, Nevada, USA, and that this would constitute a direct infringement of the clear terms of the Deed of Gift. GGYC requested that SNG clarify the matter within five days.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the construction of the boats
The following day, SNG stated publicly that GGYC's accusations were incorrect: "Alinghi 5 complies with the Deed of Gift 'constructed in country' requirement, it was built in Switzerland and so are its sails."


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the construction of the boats
On December 28, 2009, SNG sent a letter to GGYC stating that "the Deed only requires the 'yacht or vessel' to be constructed in the respective country and does not expressly impose obligations in respect of any of the separate components on board the yacht or vessel" and further stated that, while they would be willing to meet to discuss any concerns, the issue appeared to be theoretical until SNG declared what yacht it would use to defend the Cup. (Under the provisions of the Deed of Gift, the Defender need not present its boat until the first race.)


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the construction of the boats
On December 29, 2009, responding to a letter from GGYC, SNG proposed that a meeting be held in the presence of the Chairman of the International Jury, in order to discuss various concerns, including in particular the interpretation of the "constructed in country" provision of the Deed of Gift. SNG stated that, if GGYC's interpretation were followed, then SNG would have similar concerns regarding a number of items of equipment on board GGYC's yacht. SNG also stated that it was concerned that the rig of GGYC's yacht was not as described in the challenge documents dated July 11, 2007. The proposed meeting took place on 12 and 13 January 2010, but no agreements were reached.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the construction of the boats
On January 12, 2010, GGYC opened an action in the New York Supreme Court, asking the Court to enter an order declaring that the sails must be constructed in the country where the competing yacht resides and that SNG's apparent use of "3DL" sails would violate the Deed of Gift. On January 22, 2010, SNG replied to GGYC's allegations. According to SNG, the provisions of the Deed of Gift regarding in-country construction do not apply to sails, and, in any case, the sails of its yacht Alinghi 5 were constructed in Switzerland from parts obtained in the USA.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the construction of the boats
Further, SNG alleged that GGYC's yacht USA itself violated the provisions of the Deed of Gift because it was designed in France and key components were designed and made outside the USA. Also, SNG alleged that USA 17 was not a sloop and therefore was not consistent with the description provided in the challenge.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the construction of the boats
Finally, SNG argued that it would be premature for the court to decide such matters before the regatta for procedural reasons; in particular following the precedent set during the  1988 America's Cup, the matter should be decided after the race, if the loser wished to raise it. On 27 January 2010, GGYC submitted its reply to SNG's allegations. Essentially, GGYC pressed its case and stated that its yacht had been constructed in the US and was sloop-rigged.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the construction of the boats
On January 29, 2010, Justice Kornreich of the New York Supreme Court informed the parties  via telephone conference that she would not hear the complaint regarding the constructed in country requirement before the match scheduled to begin on 8 February.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the construction of the boats
The America's Cup races then took place in February 2010 but with several legal actions still awaiting decisions from the courts.


2010 America's Cup, Disputes, Regarding the construction of the boats
On 26 March 2010, BMW Oracle Racing announced that the parties had signed an agreement putting an end to all litigation which included GGYC Breach of Fiduciary Duty claim against SNG as well as all other claims relating to the legality of certain construction details of Alinghi V and USA-17. The agreement also included the transfer of various intellectual property rights such as the americascup.com web site and some physical assets to GGYC  in their new role as trustee of the America's Cup.


2010 America's Cup, Regatta, Boats
BMW Oracle Racing launched a 90-foot (27 m) trimaran in August 2008 in Anacortes, Washington. After three weeks of shakedown cruises, the boat was shipped to San Diego, California where it underwent development for the next fourteen months. Initially known as BMW Oracle Racing 90 (BOR90), the yacht was renamed USA 17 upon launch in Valencia conforming with the notice of challenge. The boat was extensively modified during the time in San Diego, most notably in replacing the outer floats, adding powered hydraulics, and fitting a rigid wing sail. At the end of December 2009, the boat was shipped to Valencia, where it arrived on January 4, 2010. After its win in the first race, most observers stated that the rigid wing sail had provided USA with a decisive advantage.


2010 America's Cup, Regatta, Boats
Alinghi built a catamaran at a boatyard in Villeneuve, Switzerland, called Alinghi 5 which was 90-foot (27 m) on the waterline with a bowsprit that makes it "about 120-foot (37 m) overall." Somewhat controversially, A5 introduced an engine to power hydraulics. It was launched on July 8, 2009, being lifted from the construction shed in Villeneuve by a Mil Mi-26 helicopter and carried thereby to Lake Geneva. On August 7, 2009, the same type of helicopter transported the boat from Lake Geneva to Genoa, Italy. At the end of September 2009, the boat was shipped to Ras al Khaimah. At the end of December 2009, the boat was shipped to Valencia, where it arrived on January 5, 2010.


2010 America's Cup, Regatta, Races
Racing was scheduled to start on February 8, 2010, but unsteady wind conditions caused the first start attempt to be postponed, and the second attempt on February 10, 2010 was aborted due to rough sea conditions.


2010 America's Cup, Regatta, Races
Race 1 narrative: An aggressive pre-start by BMW Oracle Racing forced a foul by Alinghi, which had not taken advantage of the diagonal start line allowed for the port-entry boat. Both boats wound up head to the wind over the start line. Alinghi bore off while BMW Oracle Racing remained stalled and started c.650 m behind (1:27).


2010 America's Cup, Regatta, Races
BMW Oracle Racing were clearly able to sail higher and faster (average speed 20.2 kt vs. 19.4 kt), so they caught up with Alinghi within 15 minutes and thereafter extended their lead eventually winning by over 3,000 m. Upwind they were able to out-sail Alinghi even without a jib and their speed differential was greater downwind (23.5 kt vs. 20.7 kt average speed) than upwind. The final delta includes a penalty turn by Alinghi due to not keeping clear at the start. Without the penalty turn the delta was about 8½ minutes. Winds were 5 to 10 knots. Partial timings for the winner were 1h29 upwind, 1h03 downwind.


2010 America's Cup, Regatta, Races
Race 2 narrative: Alinghi received a penalty for being in the pre-start area before the designated time. There was very little pre-start maneuvering. BMW Oracle Racing started on starboard tack ahead of Alinghi on port tack. Alinghi sailed faster than during the previous race and benefited from a 20-degree wind shift, which put the Swiss boat in the lead at about the midpoint of the first leg. But after crossing ahead, Alinghi fell behind after tacking for the lay line.


2010 America's Cup, Regatta, Races
BMW Oracle Racing then proved to be much faster on the first reach, pulling about 2 kilometers ahead (26.8 kt vs. 25.2 kt average speed). The final delta includes the penalty turn by Alinghi. Without the penalty turn the delta would have been around 4 minutes. Winds were 7 to 8 knots. Partial timings for the winner were 0h59 to upwind mark, 0h29 to gybe mark, 0h39 to finish.


2010 America's Cup, Aftermath, Start of Race 2
After the conclusion of the second race, Principal Race Officer (PRO) Harold Bennett commented that he had encountered problems in starting Race 2.


2010 America's Cup, Aftermath, Start of Race 2
The original Race Instructions issued by the SNG Race Committee (RC) defined the maximum allowed wave height, maximum wind velocity and maximum variation of wind direction across the course in order for a race to be started and completed. It is unusual for specific weather conditions to be inserted in the race instructions because this is usually left to the discretion of the PRO to start a race in conditions which are deemed to be safe and/or allow the race to be completed within the time limit.


2010 America's Cup, Aftermath, Start of Race 2
The consensus of most of the commentators at the time was that the wind conditions defined in the race instructions were artificially low and designed to favour Alinghi 5 which was generally thought to have a better performance than USA 17 in light airs. GGYC appealed these specific limits to the ISAF International Jury who ordered them removed from the Notice of Race, but noted "that the RC has the obligation to comply with appropriate safety and legal obligations when making a decision to start or continue a race."


2010 America's Cup, Aftermath, Start of Race 2
The competitors had been waiting on the water for close to four hours. As the 16:30 deadline for starting a race approached, Bennett ordered the postponement to be taken down indicating that a race starting sequence would soon commence. The SNG Race Committee refused to follow this direction, and left the bridge, moving below decks. In order to continue Bennett had to ask Tom Ehman, the BOR representative on board the committee boat plus a support boat driver to assist with the raising and lowering of flags to complete the start sequence. "I have never seen such disgraceful behavior on a committee boat, trying to influence the PRO to the point of ordering me to stop the [start] sequence", wrote Bennett.


2010 America's Cup, Aftermath, Termination of Legal Action
As detailed above, on 26 March 2010 BMW Oracle Racing announced that agreement had been reached between GGYC and SNG to drop all remaining litigation hence eliminating the prospect of post-race legal disputes.


2010 America's Cup, Aftermath, Louis Vuitton Trophy
Because of the long delays from the legal action, and the fact that the 33rd America's Cup was a Deed of Gift match without a defender or challenger selection series, the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series was established and raced in January and February 2009 as a competition for other America's Cup racing syndicates. Ten syndicates took part in the regatta which used boats provided by Team New Zealand and BMW Oracle Racing.


2010 America's Cup, Aftermath, Louis Vuitton Trophy
This initial event was then expanded into the Louis Vuitton Trophy series of events which started in November 2009. These events were designed to be low cost and keep syndicates active while waiting for the 34th America's Cup.


2010 America's Cup, Aftermath, 34th America's Cup
After the conclusion of the second race Club Nautico di Roma represented by the sailing team Mascalzone Latino, a longtime supporter of BMW Oracle, was named the challenger of record. BMW Oracle Racing promised a multi-challenger regatta.


2010 American Express – TED Open
The 2010 American Express – TED Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the twenty-fourth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Istanbul, Turkey between 9 and 15 August 2010.


2010 American Express – TED Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 American Express – TED Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:


2010 American Express – TED Open, Champions, Doubles
Leoš Friedl /  Dušan Vemić def. Brian Battistone /  Andreas Siljeström, 7–6(6), 7–6(3)


2010 American Express – TED Open – Doubles
Frederico Gil and Filip Prpic were the defending champions. They chose not to compete this year. Leoš Friedl and Dušan Vemić won the title, defeating Brian Battistone and Andreas Siljeström 7–6(6), 7–6(3) in the finals.