2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Stage races
The team attended the Tour Down Under, with a squad headed by André Greipel. Though Greipel did not wish to be considered a favorite for victory in the event, he went on to win the event's general and points classifications, and three of the six stages. The team next took wins at two partially concurrent events in February, the inaugural Tour of Oman and the Volta ao Algarve. Howard's win in stage 4 in Oman was his first as a professional, while Greipel's successful early season continued in Portugal with wins in stage 2 and the points classification. Later in the month, Rogers won the Ruta Del Sol without winning a stage. It was his first overall stage race victory since 2003.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Team HTC-Columbia came to the Giro with a squad led by Greipel, the season's most prolific winner of individual days of racing and a heavy favorite in the Giro's flat stages, and Pinotti, who would try for a high overall placing and stage wins in the time trials. Pinotti was tenth in the stage 1 time trial in Amsterdam. Goss and Greipel both made all the splits occurring after many crashes marred stage 2. In the depleted sprint finish, the Australian took second despite entering the Giro prepared to be Greipel's leadout man.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Greipel was fourth and did not seriously challenge stage winner Tyler Farrar. More crashes occurred in stage 3. Greipel again made all the selections, but again was not a factor in the sprint, taking just sixth on the day. The squad's best-placed rider prior the transfer to Italy was Sieberg in fifth, 7 seconds behind the race leader. With the squad noted as one of the favorites in the stage 4 team time trial, Sieberg, as well as Goss and Greipel both three seconds back of him, all had a realistic chance of taking the pink jersey. The squad finished the 32.5 km (20.2 mi) course with five riders together in 36'58". Goss and Greipel were among the five finishing together, but their 21-second gap to stage winners Liquigas–Doimo meant that the team missed out on getting the pink jersey.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Stage 7 was difficult, long and run partially on unpaved roads. The day on which the stage was run happened to have very heavy rain, making the course muddy and still more treacherous. Pinotti rode with the leaders most of the day, following a move by Alexander Vinokourov after overnight race leader Vincenzo Nibali needed a bike change. Pinotti was not quite able to bridge up to the leading trio of Vinokourov, Damiano Cunego, and stage winner Cadel Evans in the final kilometer, finishing six seconds back for fourth on the day.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The result moved him into sixth in the overall standings. The ninth stage was very flat, without any categorized hills. Garmin–Transitions forced a grueling pace in the final kilometers, which led to a split in the field – only 47 riders finished together at the head of the field. Greipel had difficulties keeping the pace and was just 19th on the day.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Goss rode at the front of the field intending to lead Greipel out, but when he saw that the big German was not at the front of the race with 400 m (1,300 ft) to go, he rode for himself and won the stage. The next day's stage was also flat, and Greipel again had troubles in the sprint, coming only seventh out of the nine riders who finished three seconds ahead of the rest of the peloton.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In stage 11, when more than 50 riders formed the day's breakaway group, Goss was the only HTC-Columbia rider to make the selection. He did not come close to staying with the leaders, however, finishing just three seconds ahead of the peloton and with them nearly 13 minutes behind the stage winner. These results moved Pinotti out of the top ten overall. Pinotti took seventh in stage 12, when a late ten-man selection of General Classification favorites and hopefuls finished ten seconds ahead of the peloton. Lewis made a winning breakaway in stage 13. He attacked in the final kilometer and appeared poised for a stage win, but Manuel Belletti passed him up 100 m (330 ft) from the finish line.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Greipel would normally have pulled out of the race well before its most difficult mountain stages took place, but having missed out on the sprints in the race's first two weeks, he rode through the high mountain stages 14 and 15 (which Pinotti finished among the top ten in both) and the Plan de Corones time trial with stage 18 in mind. Very short and very flat, the stage was ideal for Greipel. The team rode a tempo at the head of the peloton to keep the day's breakaway in check, and caught them in the stage's final few kilometers. Getting an effective leadout from Sieberg and Raboň, Greipel at last took a Giro stage win.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In stage 19, which went over the Passo del Mortirolo, Pinotti returned to the top ten overall by finishing tenth on the day. Pinotti very nearly won the time trial which closed out the Giro. He posted a better split at the intermediate time check than provisional best and eventual stage winner Gustav Larsson, but faded in the final kilometers to finish two seconds back, for second. The result did, however, move him from tenth overall up to ninth, at a deficit of 14'20" to Giro champion Ivan Basso. The squad finished 16th in the Trofeo Fast Team standings but did much better in the Trofeo Super Team, coming in second in that classification.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The team's squad for the Tour de France was largely centered around Cavendish and the goal of having him win the green jersey. This was in spite of the fact that the Manxman's season to date had been subpar, with only three victories before the Tour (in 2009 he had 13 wins before the Tour). Rogers, coming off overall wins in the Tour of California and the Ruta Del Sol, was the squad's General Classification hopeful.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Martin was one of the earliest starters in the prologue time trial, and was the leader for most of the day with a time of ten minutes and ten seconds. Fabian Cancellara was one of the day's last starters and was the only rider to beat Martin's time, leaving the young German second on the day. The first road race stage in Belgium featured many crashes, including one very near the finish line that greatly reduced the number of riders in position to sprint for victory. Renshaw avoided the pileups, but missed out on the stage win to Alessandro Petacchi.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Cavendish finished with the second group on the road, not crossing the line until two and a half minutes after Petacchi. The squad was one of the fortunate few to emerge from the crash-ridden second stage without any injuries. The fourth stage was again flat and more straightforward this time, as there were no serious crashes on the day. Cavendish, however, continued to struggle, coming home a distant twelfth in the field sprint. Finally, in stage 5, Cavendish took his first win of the Tour, and appeared very emotional on the podium when accepting the day's honors.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
He added another sprint win the next day in stage 6. Stage 8 was the last before the Tour's first day, ending at Morzine-Avoriaz in the Alps, a stage sure to help define the race's overall classification. Rogers finished twelfth on the day and 20 seconds behind the first group on the road, but gaining time against some contenders such as Joaquim Rodríguez and Andreas Klöden. However, the high mountain stage 9, incorporating the Col de la Madeleine, Rogers lost four minutes to the stage winner and two minutes to the majority of the race's elite riders, falling to 14th. He continued to fall in the standings further from that point on, eventually finishing the race in 37th place.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Cavendish's success in the flats continued, however, as he won stage 11 with a sizeable lead over Petacchi and Tyler Farrar. The stage was notable for events which took place during that sprint. Farrar's leadout man Julian Dean and Cavendish's leadout man Renshaw clashed for position at the head of the peloton in the stage's final meters. As Dean led Farrar up the middle of the road with Renshaw to his left, the Aussie responded by head-butting him.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Renshaw later stated that he was trying to keep Dean from maneuvering him into the roadside barricades, with safety as much a concern as victory, and Dean's line did deviate slightly as he rode. Amid the chaos, the three principal sprinters jumped for an unusually long final kick to the line, starting 400 m (1,300 ft) out. Race officials later expelled Renshaw from the Tour for the headbutting. Dean was not punished for the incident, though the possibility for penalty existed – Cavendish himself was assessed a penalty in the 2009 Tour de France for similar irregular sprinting.


2010 Team HTC–Columbia season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In stage 13 two days later, a field sprint seemed to be shaping up until Alexander Vinokourov slipped away for a solo win by a margin of 13 seconds. Cavendish indeed led the peloton across the finish line, but it was only for second place. Cavendish won the Tour's last two road race stages, stage 18 in Bordeaux and on the Champs-Élysées for the second year in a row, a Tour first. His five wins in the 2010 Tour gave him 15 for his career, the most ever for a sprinter despite only having ridden four Tours. His poor performances early in the Tour, however, meant he again fell just short of claiming the green jersey, losing out to Petacchi by 11 points. The squad finished 17th in the teams classification.


2010 Team Ice Racing World Championship
The 2010 FIM Team Ice Racing World Championship was the 32nd edition and the 2010 version of FIM Team Ice Racing World Championship season. The Final was held in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia on 30–31 January 2010. The championship was won by Russia (50 points), who they beat Sweden (45 pts) and Austria (41 pts).


2010 Team Ice Racing World Championship, World Final, Heat details – Day One
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


2010 Team Ice Racing World Championship, World Final, Heat details – Day Two
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •t - exclusion for touching the tapes •x - other exclusion •e - retired or mechanical failure •f - fellns - non-starter •nc - non-classify


2010 Team Katusha season
The 2010 season for Team Katusha started in January with the Tour de San Luis and ended in October at the Japan Cup. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the ProTour. Andrei Tchmil returns from the team's debut season as its manager. Notable rider additions for 2010 include Kim Kirchen and Joaquim Rodríguez, who have both finished in the top ten in Grand Tours.


2010 Team Katusha season, One-day races
Before the spring season began, Team Katusha scored a victory with McEwen in the Trofeo Palma, part of the Vuelta a Mallorca quasi-stage race, as the veteran Aussie outsprinted Koldo Fernández and Óscar Freire to claim his first win since knee surgery seven months earlier.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours
Team Katusha has received invitations to all three Grand Tours in 2010.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Team Katusha came to the Giro with a squad headed by McEwen, Pozzato, (both of whom would try for stage wins) and Caruso, the team's general classification hopeful. Caruso had begun the 2010 season under contract to Ceramica Flaminia, but was allowed to leave the team when they were not selected for the Giro. McEwen was present for a depleted group sprint finish to the Giro's first road race stage in Netherlands, taking seventh. He missed the selections the next day, however, and finished 57 seconds behind the leaders.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Prior the transfer to Italy, the team's highest-placed rider in the overall standings was Karpets in 12th. The squad took fourth in the stage 4 team time trial, having been first when they completed their ride and bettered by only Team Sky, Team HTC–Columbia, and the winners Liquigas–Doimo. As Karpets was one of the five riders who finished together, the result moved him into seventh in the overall standings.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Karpets moved up to fifth after stage 6, when sprinters Matthew Goss and André Greipel, who had been ahead of him, were unable to finish with the peloton due to the hilly parcours. The next day shuffled the standings more. Karpets lost 1'18" in the difficult, muddy stage in Tuscany, but moved up to fourth as other riders were worse off and lost even more time.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In the Giro's first mountain stage, concluding with the climb up Monte Terminillo, Petrov climbed with the Giro's elite and was able to slip out the front of the group on the ascent since he did not pose an overall threat. He took fourth on the stage, seven seconds ahead of the rest of the peloton and 49 seconds back of the solo winner. Karpets was dropped on the climb and lost over a minute, falling back to seventh overall. The squad came very close again to stage wins the next two days.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Pozzato made a late split in the field in stage 9 and finished second in the group sprint, just behind Goss and ahead of the Giro's only double stage winner Tyler Farrar. In stage 10, Julian Dean's leadout for Farrar caused a split within the final 500 m (1,600 ft) of the stage. McEwen was one of just eight other riders to finish with the same time as stage winner Farrar, taking fourth on the day.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Stage 11 was a very important one. More than fifty riders formed the morning's escape. Petrov, Horrach, and Caruso (who, by this point, was well out of overall contention, sitting in 51st place) made the selection. This group got a maximum time advantage over the peloton of 20 minutes. As the finish line neared, they stopped working as a cohesive group, with the prospective stage win in mind. Ten remained together into the stage's final kilometer, when Petrov rode past an early-attacking Dario Cataldo to take the win.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The time gap back to the Giro's overall favorites was still nearly 13 minutes, leading to a massive re-shuffling of the overall standings. The next day, another late split in the field took place. With a field sprint seemingly shaping up, a group of ten consisting mostly of Giro favorites got away. Pozzato made this split and was the strongest sprinter present, taking the victory. Pozzato was the first Italian stage winner at the Giro, and it was his first career Giro stage win. The next day, Klimov made a winning breakaway, and finished ninth in the sprint.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
During this stage, Karpets launched a solo move against the peloton and stayed out in front of them between the breakaway and the main field for most of the stage. He took back two minutes on the Giro elite, moving up five places in the overall classification with the move. The squad was then quiet for the remainder of the Giro, with Petrov's tenth place in the climbing time trial to Plan de Corones the closest they came to another victory. Karpets finished the race in 14th place, 25'21" behind Giro champion Ivan Basso. Caruso was 46th, over two hours down. The squad finished ninth in the Trofeo Fast Team standings and 11th in the Trofeo Super Team.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Team Katusha entered the Tour de France with a squad led by Karpets. In stage 2, both Karpets and McEwen were caught up in the crashes on the Col du Stockeu in Spa, with McEwen needing medical attention to a deep wound on his elbow. The veteran Aussie stayed in the race, figuring in the mass sprint finishes to the next three stages, though finishing only as high as fourth. In stage 9, to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Rodríguez finished ninth, moving into the same place in the overall standings. He gained time against a small handful of overall contenders, but he also lost two minutes to Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador, and sat five minutes behind them in the general classification.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In stage 12, Alexander Vinokourov seemed out in front on the stage-concluding climb to Mende and poised for a stage win when Contador attacked the chase group behind his teammate. Rodríguez came with him, and the two easily rode past Vinokourov. As Contador had driven their little breakaway, Rodríguez was much fresher in the final sprint, and took the stage win. The ten seconds they took on the group of contenders moved Rodríguez up to eighth overall.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
After Schleck and Contador engaged in a bizarre trackstand on the Port de Pailhères in stage 14, Rodríguez, who had been trailing them on the climb, caught up and finished together with them and two others, for fifth on the day. In the Tour's queen stage, stage 17 finishing at the Col du Tourmalet, Rodríguez finished third, just over a minute behind Schleck and Contador at the head of the race. He therefore took time out of every other contender in the race, and moved up in the overall standings again, to seventh.


2010 Team Katusha season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The stage 19 time trial provided for the final changes to the overall standings. The day on which it was run involved a drastic change in wind direction during the time trial, which is part of the reason Rodríguez was 154th on the day, losing ten minutes to stage winner Fabian Cancellara. He also lost considerable time to other members of the top ten in the overall standings, and slipped back to eighth, which was his final placing the next day. The squad finished 18th in the teams classification.


2010 Team Long Track World Championship
The 2010 Team Long Track World Championship was the fourth annual FIM Team Long Track World Championship. The final took place on 4 September 2010 in Morizès, France. The Championship was won by the defending champion Germany who beat host team France and The Netherlands. It was fourth champion title for German riders.


2010 Team Long Track World Championship, Heat details
M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2010 Team Milram season
The 2010 season for Team Milram, its last, began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the ProTour. The team's ridership was largely unchanged from the 2009 season.


2010 Team Milram season, Stage races
Rohregger won the mountains classification at the first ProTour event of the season, the Tour Down Under.


2010 Team Milram season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Gerdemann was the leader of Team Milram's squad at the Giro d'Italia, in his first participation in the event. Förster, a three-time Giro stage winner, was brought along with the sprints in mind. In stage 3 in the Netherlands, Förster, Gerdemann, and Rohregger all avoided the many crashes that took place on the day and finished with the leading group, taking third, seventh, and ninth respectively in the sprint. Gerdemann was in eighth overall, 12 seconds back, before the transfer to Italy.


2010 Team Milram season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In the stage 4 team time trial, the squad was tenth, finishing with five riders 57 seconds off the pace of stage winners Liquigas–Doimo. In stage 6, Gerdemann finished the stage with the peloton and moved into eighth overall, leapfrogging in the overall standings over several sprinters who were left minutes behind. Gerdemann and Rohregger finished together, for 12th and 13th at one minute and 13 seconds back, in the difficult and muddy stage 7 in Tuscany. With this result, both were in the top ten for a day, though both were dropped on Monte Terminillo the next day and fell out of the top ten. Förster took fourth and then fifth in the sprint finishes to stages 9 and 10.


2010 Team Milram season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In stage 11, more than 50 riders formed the day's breakaway, with the Giro's favorites conceding nearly 13 minutes to the stage winner. Gerdemann and Russ made the selection, and with sixth on the stage Gerdemann moved into seventh overall. In the first of the Giro's several mountain stages in its last week, Gerdemann rode the Monte Grappa climb with the second group on the road, losing 2'25" to stage winner Vincenzo Nibali but moving up to fifth in the overall classification.


2010 Team Milram season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Gerdemann conceded time in each climbing stage the rest of the way, and the squad did not have any high stage placings from stage 14 on. Gerdemann completed the race in 16th place, at a deficit of 34'49 to Giro champion Ivan Basso. The squad finished 19th in the Trofeo Fast Team standings and 14th in the Trofeo Super Team.


2010 Team Milram season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Gerdemann also led Milram's squad for the Tour de France, with Ciolek their primary sprinter. Gerdemann showed well in the prologue time trial, coming in tenth, 35 seconds off the winning time of Fabian Cancellara. Over the next two days, the team took numerous meaningless high placings, as both of the first two road race stages involved neutralizations following crashes. The squad was largely unaffected by the myriad of crashes that took place on the Col du Stockeu in Spa in stage 2, though Terpstra did crash at one point.


2010 Team Milram season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In a more straightforward flat stage in stage 5, Ciolek took second behind Mark Cavendish in the field sprint finish. He was sixth the next day in a similar finish. Roberts made a winning breakaway in stage 15, but was left well short of victory on the day, finishing with Alberto Contador's group three minutes behind stage winner Thomas Voeckler, as the new race leader caught the last remnants of that group right at the finish. In the Tour's largely ceremonial final stage, Ciolek again figured into the sprint finish, taking sixth on the day.


2010 Team Milram season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
No member of the squad was ever competitive in the overall standings. Rohregger was their highest-placed rider at the race's conclusion, in 74th place, 2 hours and 12 minutes behind Tour champion Contador. Gerdemann was 84th, a further 24 minutes back. The squad finished in last place in the teams classification.


2010 Team RadioShack season
The 2010 season for Team RadioShack, its first, began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. Team RadioShack rode in 2010 a UCI ProTour team, and was thus automatically invited to and obligated to send a squad to every ProTour event.


2010 Team RadioShack season
Much of the team joined after having competed as members of the Astana team from 2009, including team leaders Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, and Andreas Klöden, and team manager Johan Bruyneel. Many riders followed them, including all of Astana's 2009 Tour de France squad with the exception of champion Alberto Contador. The formation of the team was announced days after Alexander Vinokourov returned to Astana from suspension with new financial backers joining him – backers who favored Vinokourov and Contador over Bruyneel and Armstrong. The team also includes an assortment of riders who were members of other ProTour teams in 2009.


2010 Team RadioShack season, One-day races, Spring classics
Similar to the 2009 Astana team, Team RadioShack was not built for one-day races but rather for stage races. Its only win was earned in the Brabantse Pijl ("Brabant Arrow" in English) by Sébastien Rosseler.


2010 Team RadioShack season, One-day races, Fall races
Levi Leipheimer won the Leadville Trail 100 MTB mountain bike race in August.


2010 Team RadioShack season, Stage races
Team RadioShack's first event in their history was the Tour Down Under. Armstrong and Bruyneel commented that they were eager to come away from the race with victories, likely with ace sprinter Steegmans, because the entire executive committee of RadioShack was in Australia to see the race in person. Steegmans finished a close second behind eventual Tour winner André Greipel in the race's first stage, but that was as close as the team came to any wins. Nonetheless, Bruyneel said he was satisfied with the team's performance. In the Volta ao Algarve, Rosseler took the team's first-ever stage win, winning stage 4 from a breakaway. Machado finished third overall in the event, Leipheimer finished fourth, and won its unique award for best Portuguese rider. The squad also won the teams classification.


2010 Team RadioShack season, Stage races
RadioShack had a decent year in stage races, although overall victories were rare. Through August, it had only three general classification victories: Chris Horner in the Tour of the Basque Country; Janez Brajkovič in the Critérium du Dauphiné; and Haimar Zubeldia in the Tour de l'Ain. However, four other riders had also finished on the podium: Lance Armstrong, second in the Tour de Suisse and third in the Tour de Luxembourg; Tiago Machado, third in the Volta ao Algarve; Levi Leipheimer, third in the Tour of California; and Matthew Busche, third in the Tour of Denmark. Leipheimer also won the Tour of the Gila, although technically the Team RadioShack riders in that race (despite wearing jerseys with "RadioShack" on the front) were riding for Armstrong's "Mellow Johnny's" team, and the Tour of Utah, in which he rode alone for Mellow Johnny's.


2010 Team RadioShack season, Grand Tours
Because the three Grand Tour events are not part of the UCI ProTour, teams must be invited to each of the events and may choose not to participate. Team RadioShack requested not to be invited to the Giro d'Italia, instead sending their best riders to the concurrent Tour of California. Though the team actively sought a place in the Vuelta a España, they were not one of the 22 teams chosen for participation in that race either. They only participated in the Tour de France among the year's Grand Tours.


2010 Team RadioShack season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The 2010 RadioShack team in the Tour de France was almost identical to the 2009 Astana team, with seven of the nine riders. The only changes were Chris Horner, replacing Alberto Contador, who remained with Astana, and Janez Brajkovic, replacing Haimar Zubeldia, who was recovering from a broken wrist. Although the team once again won Best Team, its highest individual result came from Horner, who finished 10th.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season
The 2010 season for Danish professional cycling team Team Saxo Bank began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Japan Cup. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the ProTour.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season
The team's manager is Bjarne Riis, in his twelfth season with the team.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season
The online investment bank Saxo Bank originally announced that they would end their sponsorship of the team after the 2010 season, feeling their advertising money would be better spent elsewhere. Riis brought in SunGard as a title sponsor for 2011, and later it was revealed that Saxo Bank would continue to sponsor the team for 2011 in spite of their previous announcement.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, One-day races
In February, before the spring season and races known as "classics" began, Haedo won the first-ever Mumbai Cyclothon, the first UCI-rated race in the nation of India. He was first over the line after outsprinting a breakaway companion.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Stage races
Cancellara got the team's first victory of the season, winning the inaugural Tour of Oman after a second-place finish in the event's closing individual time trial.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Team Saxo Bank came to the Giro without its top stars, the Schleck brothers and Cancellara, preferring to hold them back for the Tour de France. The squad included time trial specialist Larsson, sprinters Cooke and Sebastian Haedo, and Grand Tour rookies Didier and Porte. Porte, fresh off his surprising win in the time trial in the Tour de Romandie, showed well in the Giro's stage 1 time trial, finishing sixth and taking the white jersey for best young rider. Neither of the squad's sprinters made the selections necessary in stages 2 and 3 to contest the depleted bunch finishes. Porte, however, did, and was tied with race leader Alexander Vinokourov on time before the transfer to Italy. Vinokourov got the pink jersey by a margin of hundredths of a second from the stage 1 time trial.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
This ostensibly gave the team a chance to take the jersey in the stage 4 team time trial, but with Larsson and Porte the only solid time trialists on the squad, they were only able to ride to ninth place at 50 seconds back of stage winners Liquigas–Doimo. Porte dropped to eighth because of this result. The squad was then quiet until the Giro's first mountain stage, which ended with the long climb up Monte Terminillo. Chris Sørensen made the morning breakaway.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
While the peloton absorbed 15 members of the escape group during the climb, Sørensen and Colnago–CSF Inox's Simone Stortoni stayed away as the summit neared. Between the 14 km (8.7 mi) and 6 km (3.7 mi) to go marks, Sørensen put in many attacks with Stortoni easily covered, but at 6 km (3.7 mi) he slipped away and soloed to the stage win in a picturesque fog atop the mountain.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In stage 11, the Giro's longest, more than 50 riders formed the day's breakaway. This group attained a maximum advantage of 20 minutes, paving the way for significant changes to the overall standings. Chris Sørensen, Didier, and Porte, who had risen to sixth overall, all made the selection. Team Saxo Bank helped to drive the break, since Porte as the highest placed rider stood to take the pink jersey should they stay away. Porte finished 13th on the stage, but was 12 and a half minutes clear of the peloton, becoming the new race leader with the result.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Porte held the pink jersey for two days, through stages won by breakaways, before losing it to David Arroyo in the Monte Grappa stage. The squad was then largely quiet for the remainder of the race. Haedo took the team's only top ten in a group sprint in stage 18, after other sprinters had left the race. He was seventh on the day, behind André Greipel. In the time trial which closed out the Giro, Larsson posted an early best time as the 80th man to leave the starthouse.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
He was pleased with his time, and was concerned about only two riders of the nearly 100 to follow him – Team Sky and stage one time trial winner Bradley Wiggins and Italian national time trial champion Marco Pinotti. Wiggins was 12 seconds off Larsson's pace at the intermediate time check, which Larsson took to mean he could not beat his time at the finish line since Larsson is the better of the two in the downhills.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
He was nervous in watching Pinotti take the course near the end of the day, and the Italian champion posted a better time than Larsson at the intermediate time check, but he faded as the course went on and was two seconds slower than Larsson at the finish line, giving the Swede the stage win. Porte finished the Giro in seventh overall, winning the youth classification. The squad finished sixth in the Trofeo Fast Team standings and eighth in the Trofeo Super Team.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Team Saxo Bank's leader for the Tour de France was Andy Schleck, who was often mentioned as an overall favorite having finished second overall the year before. Brother Fränk was to be Andy's top lieutenant. The squad also included world time trial champion Cancellara and several experienced climbers.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Though Andy entered the race as the Luxembourgian national time trial champion, he was noted to be weak in the discipline relative to other overall favorites. In the 8.9 km (5.5 mi) prologue time trial which began the Tour, he lost over 30 seconds to most of the other overall contenders. Cancellara won the stage and as such took the first race leader's yellow jersey, as he had three other times in his career.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In stage 2 two days later, Cancellara used his status as race leader to negotiate a neutralization of the finish. After a rider from the morning breakaway crashed and inadvertently set off a cascade of other crashes on the Col du Stockeu in Spa, Cancellara spoke to race officials and came away with an agreement that the peloton would not contest the stage finish. This agreement effectively cost Cancellara his yellow jersey, as breakaway rider Sylvain Chavanel was still out front at the time, and finished almost four minutes ahead. Both Schleck brothers were among the multitude of riders to crash on this day, and Andy rode his chase back to the peloton on Breschel's bicycle after his was too damaged to continue riding.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The team had another dramatic day in stage 3. This stage, while flat, was expected to be difficult and feature many crashes, as it incorporated numerous cobbled sectors at the Belgium-France border. Cancellara, who in addition to being a superlative time trialist is also one of the best classics riders in the sport, effectively guided Andy Schleck in the front group for the entire stage. Both were exhausted at the finish from their work throughout the day, and finished fifth and sixth in the six-man sprint for the stage win.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
His position in the leading group gained Andy solid time against his rivals – 53 seconds over Denis Menchov and Jurgen Van den Broeck, a minute and 13 seconds over Alberto Contador, and over two minutes against Lance Armstrong, Ivan Basso, and Robert Gesink. Cancellara also reclaimed the yellow jersey, as Chavanel lost back almost the exact amount of time he had won the day before. However, earlier in the stage, just as the cobbled sections began, Fränk Schleck crashed hard. He was unable to continue and retired from the Tour with a broken collarbone.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Cancellara comfortably retained his race lead over the next three days in stages won by sprinters before losing it in stage 7 – incidentally, to the same man who took it previously, Chavanel. The Frenchman again won the stage from a solo breakaway. The next day was the Tour's first stage in the Alps, ending with a climb to Morzine-Avoriaz. A group of pre-race favorites (with Armstrong the notable absence) finished the stage as the first group on the road. Schleck and Euskaltel–Euskadi captain Samuel Sánchez gained ten seconds over the others as they fought for the stage win. Schleck won the sprint, his first career Tour stage win. The result also moved him up to second overall, 20 seconds behind new race leader Cadel Evans, as the overall standings were defined.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In stage 9, Contador and Schleck made a move which all but assured that one of them would be Tour champion. Schleck attacked from the group of overall contenders on the Col de la Madeleine, and drew Contador and Sánchez with him. After they had distanced themselves from the elite group for a short while, Schleck attacked again, and this time only Contador followed. They met up with Voigt, who had made the morning breakaway and paced them vigorously before bonking.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
They continually added to their advantage over the other top riders in the race and ended up reaching the remainder of the breakaway at the front of the race. They finished together with the five riders who were left from the morning escape, though neither tried for the stage win. This result installed Schleck as the race leader, with Contador in second 41 seconds behind him, and Sánchez two minutes behind Contador in third, a time gap that was unlikely to be overcome.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The top of the overall standings stayed the same until stage 12, a mostly flat stage which ended with a short but nearly vertical climb to Mende. Schleck said before the stage that he disliked this sort of climb, and was apprehensive about losing time on it. As the peloton approached the finish, Astana's Alexander Vinokourov was out front and appeared poised for the stage win when his teammate Contador attacked out of the main field, something which is usually not done. Joaquim Rodríguez came with Contador and narrowly edged him at the finish for the stage win.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The move gained Contador ten seconds over Schleck, though Schleck was satisfied with losing only that small amount of time, as he retained the yellow jersey. Schleck and Contador ceded 14 seconds to Menchov and Sánchez in stage 14, when they engaged in a bizarre seeming track stand during the stage-concluding climb to Ax-3-Domaines.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Perhaps the Tour's biggest controversy ensued in stage 15. While the group of overall favorites climbed the Port de Balès, the chain on Schleck's bicycle slipped. It was at this exact moment that Contador put in an attack, with Menchov and Sánchez following him. Due to his mechanical trouble, Schleck was unable to follow until receiving support from team mechanics. He rode an aggressive descent of the Port de Balès, but still lost 39 seconds on the day, which was enough for Contador to assume the race leadership.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
When interviewed after the stage, Schleck angrily declared that he would recover his time losses on the Col du Tourmalet in the stage that ended there three days later. The incident touched off a widespread debate over whether Contador and the others who attacked should have waited for Schleck to receive mechanical assistance rather than ride away when Schleck, through no physical limitation of his own, could not follow. In stage 16 the next day, Voigt crashed hard on the Col de Peyresourde, totaling his bicycle.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
This was at the rear of the race, meaning the veteran German stood the risk of being eliminated from the Tour because of time loss to the stage winner. He encountered a representative from a program that has children ride part of one of the Tour stages, and borrowed a child's bike to ride for a time. Riis, at the front of the race, heard about Voigt's crash and left a spare bike with a local policeman to give to Voigt whenever he should come through. The plan worked and Voigt survived elimination.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In stage 17, Schleck and Contador again distinguished themselves as the two strongest riders in the race. They easily rode away from everyone else in the race on the Col du Tourmalet. Schleck tried repeatedly to distance himself from Contador, in hopes of regaining the yellow jersey, but Contador was able to follow his every move. At the finish, Contador did not sprint, and Schleck took his second stage win of the Tour. The day's results gave them an even larger gap over third-place man Sánchez, who now stood three and a half minutes back.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The stage 19 individual time trial was the last chance for any changes to the overall standings. Due to a drastic increase in the speed of a headwind as the day went on, early starters posted considerably better times than those who came later. Contador, for example, who had won the long time trial in the 2009 Tour de France, finished this one in 35th place. While again recognized as a weaker time trialist than his Spanish rival, Schleck had only eight seconds to overcome on this stage and spoke of how he thought he had good chances.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Indeed, at the first two intermediate time checks, Schleck had taken back those eight seconds and was momentarily exactly tied with Contador. Little by little, though, Schleck faded and Contador finished 31 seconds better of the two. This made their final time gap in the overall standings 39 seconds – the exact amount of time Contador took out of Schleck after the latter's mechanical incident on the Port de Balès. Cancellara won this time trial, giving the squad four stage wins in the Tour. The two held their positions in the Tour's largely ceremonial final stage the next day. Schleck won the youth classification for the third consecutive year, in his last year of eligibility. The squad was 12th in the teams classification.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Two months after the race concluded, it was revealed that Contador had tested positive for clenbuterol on July 21, the rest day before the stage ending at the Col du Tourmalet. As he potentially stood to be stripped of the Tour crown, it would have made Schleck the winner. Contador signed with Saxo Bank–SunGard for the 2011 season, and Riis revealed after the 2010 season ended that he had been in communications with the Spaniard while this Tour de France was ongoing.


2010 Team Saxo Bank season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
On 6 February 2012, Contador was given a backdated two-year ban and stripped of both his 2010 Tour win for Astana – giving victory to Schleck – and the 2011 Giro d'Italia win for Saxo Bank–SunGard.


2010 Team Sky season
The 2010 season for Team Sky, its first, began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the ProTour. The team formed for the 2010 season as part of an initiative by British Cycling to produce the first ever British Tour de France winner within five years. Much of the team's ridership is British, most of it is anglophone, and the team competes under a British licence. Its manager is Dave Brailsford, the former Performance Director of British Cycling. Senior Director Sportif was Australian ex-professional road cyclist Scott Sunderland. Team Sky's other Sports Directors were former professional cyclists Marcus Ljungqvist from Sweden, the Briton Sean Yates, and Steven De Jongh from the Netherlands.


2010 Team Sky season, One-day races
Before the spring season began, the team took a victory in its first-ever race. Henderson was the team's captain for the Cancer Council Helpline Classic, a 51 km (32 mi) criterium run two days before the Tour Down Under with the same peloton, but not counting toward its standings. Team Sky was largely responsible for bringing back a breakaway that included Lance Armstrong and Óscar Pereiro, with Downing and Sutton leading Henderson out to the sprint win. Sutton finished the race in second place just behind Henderson.


2010 Team Sky season, One-day races, National championships
At the British National Road Race Championships Team Sky controlled the men's race ending with riders in the top three positions. Geraint Thomas won the race, Peter Kennaugh came second and Ian Stannard came third. In the British National Time Trial Championships again claimed the top three with Bradley Wiggins retaining his title. In Norway Edvald Boasson Hagen won his National Time Trial Championships for the fourth time.


2010 Team Sky season, Stage races
Henderson finished third overall in the Tour Down Under, after taking second place on stages 2 and 6 of the six-stage race. His teammate Sutton was the rider to beat him on the final stage. The team won the team time trial stage which opened the Tour of Qatar, giving Boasson Hagen the race lead. He lost it the next day, when attacks from Quick-Step and Cervélo TestTeam caught the team unaware and then, when the team had almost paced him back into the leading group, he suffered a puncture.


2010 Team Sky season, Stage races
Later in February, at the inaugural Tour of Oman, Boasson Hagen again took race leadership, with third in a sprint to finish the race's second stage. He extended his lead with a victory in stage 3, but lost it the next day in a controversial stage 4. After Team Sky, who were pacing the peloton as the team of the race leader, let a morning breakaway get over seven minutes on a flat course, emotions ran high when no team seemed willing to help them bring the group back.


2010 Team Sky season, Stage races
Sky riders responded by pulling the peloton quickly through the stage's feed zone, something which is normally not done. Later, Cervélo TestTeam attacked 56 km (35 mi) from the end of the stage, while Boasson Hagen had stopped to urinate at the side of the road, also something which is normally not done. Boasson Hagen lost a minute and five seconds on the stage, and the race leader's red jersey. Boasson Hagen went on to win the stage 6 time trial to close the event, winning the points and youth classifications in the race and finishing second overall.


2010 Team Sky season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The first Grand Tour for Team Sky started out nicely with Bradley Wiggins winning the first stage. This put him into the Maglia Rosa, he would only wear it for one stage. Chris Froome was disqualified during stage 19 for holding onto a police motorbike. The team had a few near misses with stage wins; Coming second in the team time trial by only 13 seconds to Liquigas–Doimo and Greg Henderson's second place finish in Stage 13.


2010 Team Sky season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The team were awarded a wild-card entry for the 2010 Tour de France. In stage 2 of the tour Geraint Thomas finished second on the stage putting him into the lead of the youth classification, he would retain this jersey until stage 7 where he lost 3 minutes on the overall leader.


2010 Team Sky season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
Team Sky received an invite to participate in the 2010 Vuelta a España.


2010 Team Sky season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
During the race, many of the team's riders and staff contracted an unknown virus. John Lee Augustyn, Juan Antonio Flecha, and Ben Swift were forced to retire from the race due to illness. Soigneur Txema Gonzalez died five days after being admitted to hospital due to an unrelated bacterial infection, with the team withdrawing from the race before the start of stage eight.


2010 Team Speedway Junior European Championship
The 2010 Team Speedway Junior European Championship will be the third UEM Team Speedway Junior European Championship season. The Final took place on 8 August 2010 in Divišov, Czech Republic. The Championship was won by the defending Champion Poland (56 pts) who they beat Sweden (25 pts), host team Czech Republic (23 pts) and Ukraine (16 pts). It was second champion title for Patryk Dudek, Maciej Janowski and Przemysław Pawlicki.


2010 Team Speedway Junior European Championship, Heat details, Semi-Final One
M - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2010 Team Speedway Junior European Championship, Heat details, Semi-Final Two
M - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2010 Team Speedway Junior European Championship, Heat details, The Final
M - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2010 Team Speedway Junior World Championship
The 2010 Team Speedway Junior World Championship was the sixth FIM Team Under-21 World Championship season. The final took place on 5 September, 2010 at Rye House Stadium in Rye House, England. It was the first final in Great Britain. The Championship was won by Denmark, who beat Sweden, the defending champions Poland and host team Great Britain. It was first championship not to be won by Poland.


2010 Team Speedway Junior World Championship, Results
In the 2010 Final will be the host team Great Britain. Another finalist will be determined in two Qualifying Rounds on May 29 and June 19.


2010 Team Speedway Junior World Championship, Heat details, Semifinal 1
M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2010 Team Speedway Junior World Championship, Heat details, Semifinal 2
M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2010 Team Speedway Junior World Championship, Heat details, World Final
M - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2010 Teen Choice Awards
The 2010 Teen Choice Awards ceremony was held on August 8, 2010, at the Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, California. Several new categories were introduced, separated into "Movie", "TV", "Music", "Summer", "Fashion" and "Other". The ceremony aired on August 9, 2010, on Fox, and was co-hosted by Katy Perry, who also performed, and Cory Monteith, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, and Mark Salling from Glee. Alongside Katy, performers included Jason Derulo, Travie McCoy, Justin Bieber and Diddy – Dirty Money.


2010 Teen Choice Awards, Presenters
The following celebrities either presented awards and/or performed at the ceremony:


2010 Teen Choice Awards, Performers
(Bieber's appearance was a pre-recorded performance at his Phoenix, Arizona, tour date.)


2010 Teen Choice Awards, Winners and nominees
Nominees were announced in two waves. Over 85 million votes were cast to determine winners. Winners are highlighted in bold text.


2010 Tejano Music Awards
The 30th Tejano Music Awards were held in 2010. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. The Tejano Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony recognizing Tejano music musicians.


2010 Telkom Charity Cup
The 2010 Telkom Charity Cup was a South African football (soccer) one-day tournament for Premier Soccer League clubs, which took place on 7 August. It was the 25th Charity Cup, and the 4th under the current name. The tournament was held at Soccer City for the first time since it was closed to be rebuilt, 3 years ago. The 4 clubs involved were chosen by a public vote. The participating teams were Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns, Orlando Pirates and AmaZulu. The tournament was won by Kaizer Chiefs, on penalties, over Orlando Pirates.


2010 Telkom Knockout
The 2010 Telkom Knockout was a football (soccer) knockout competition which comprised the 16 teams in the South African Premier Soccer League. It was the 19th tournament, and the fifth under the Telkom Knockout name. The tournament is effectively South Africa's league cup, as entry is open only to clubs in the top league. The cup is usually played in the first half of the season. The tournament began on 23 October, and it ended on 4 December 2010. Kaizer Chiefs won their 9th title, by defeating Orlando Pirates 3–0 in the final at Soccer City.


2010 Telkom Knockout
In all matches there has to be a winner on the day, which will be decided if there is a winner after full-time (90 minutes). If teams are tied at full-time, then extra time is played; penalties will decide the winner if the scores are still even (there is no golden goal rule).


2010 Telkom Knockout, Teams
The 16 teams that competed in the Telkom Knockout competition are: (listed in alphabetical order).


2010 Telkom Knockout, Results, First round
The draw for the first round was done on 11 October 2010. The first round matches took place on 23, 24 and 27 October.


2010 Telkom Knockout, Results, Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals was done on 28 October 2010. The quarter-finals took place on 6 and 7 November.


2010 Telkom Knockout, Results, Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals was done on 7 November 2010, following the Maritzburg United vs Mamelodi Sundowns match. The semi-finals took place on 20 and 21 November.


2010 Telus Cup
The 2010 Telus Cup was Canada's 32nd annual national midget 'AAA' hockey championship, played April 19–25, 2010 at Lévis, Quebec. The Notre Dame Hounds defeated the Mississauga Reps 3-2 in the gold medal game to win their second straight national title and fourth overall.


2010 Telus Cup
The tournament featured four future National Hockey League players:  Morgan Rielly,  Slater Koekkoek, Liam O'Brien and Malcolm Subban. Koekkoek was named the tournament's Top Defenceman and Most Valuable Player.


2010 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, Atlantic Region
Championship GameSt. John's 6 - Miramichi 3St. John's advances to Telus Cup


2010 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, Central Region
Semi FinalsOttawa 67's 7 - Oakville 5Mississauga 2 - Sault Ste. Marie 1


2010 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, Central Region
Championship GameMississauga 7 - Ottawa 67's 3Mississauga advances to Telus Cup


2010 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, West Region
Championship GameNotre Dame 6 - Pembina Valley 3Notre Dame advances to Telus Cup


2010 Temple Owls football team
The 2010 Temple Owls football team represented Temple University during the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Owls, led by fourth-year head coach Al Golden, compete in the East Division of the Mid-American Conference and played their home games at Lincoln Financial Field. They finished the season 8–4, 5–3 in MAC play and were the only team with more than 6 wins to not be invited to a bowl game.


2010 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, vs. Villanova
Getting revenge for last year in which Temple blew a 10-point lead to lose to Villanova 27–24, the Wildcats this time seemed to have Temple on the ropes. Villanova did not punt until the fourth quarter, but Temple's victory, aided by missed field goals and interceptions, was sealed very late in the game. Temple took an early 7–0 lead, then Villanova made it 14–7 after two quick touchdown passes, but Temple made it 14–10 by halftime.


2010 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, vs. Villanova
The only scoring of the third quarter saw Temple close the gap to one point, but Villanova retook the lead with a touchdown, which was soon answered by a Temple field goal, then Temple took the lead with a touchdown strike to make it 22–21, missing the two-point conversion. Villanova retook the lead late in the fourth to go up 24–22 with a field goal, but Temple answered with one of their own to retake the lead 25–24 with one second left. Then, in a wild finish, Villanova's attempt to win the game ended with Temple running a fumble back for the final points to set the score at 31–24 which belied the wild play seen late in the fourth.


2010 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, vs. Central Michigan
Upsetting reigning MAC champion Central Michigan, who finished ranked last year, the Owls were in control for three and a half quarters until a late field goal made it a tied ballgame, but Temple retook control in overtime to set themselves at their first 2–0 start in years.


2010 Temple Owls football team, NFL Draft
1st Round, 30th Overall Pick by the New York Jets—Jr. DE Muhammad Wilkerson


2010 Temple Owls football team, NFL Draft
2nd Round, 54th Overall Pick by the Philadelphia Eagles—Sr. S Jaiquawn Jarrett


2010 Tennessee Titans season
The 2010 Tennessee Titans season was the team's 41st season in the National Football League, their 51st overall and their 14th season in Tennessee. The Titans hoped to improve on their 8–8 record from the 2009 season, but they failed to do so and ended up finishing 6-10. They started the season 5-2, but lost the next 8 of 9. This would be the Titans last season under head coach Jeff Fisher who would resign on January 27, 2011 after 17 seasons with the team.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Offseason, Personnel changes
On January 25, Kennedy Pola, who previously served as the Jacksonville Jaguars' running backs coach for the past five seasons, was hired to the same position with the Titans, replacing Earnest Byner, who was fired the same day. (Ironically, Byner was later named the new Jaguars' running backs coach ten days later.) On May 14, Ruston Webster, who served as the Seattle Seahawks' vice president of player personnel for the past four seasons, was hired to the same position with the Titans.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Offseason, Personnel changes
On July 27, Kennedy Pola left the Titans and accepted the offensive coordinator position at USC. On July 28, the following changes were made to the Titans' coaching staff: Craig Johnson was moved from quarterbacks coach to the running backs coach vacated by Kennedy Pola, and will also serve as assistant head coach. Dowell Loggains, who previously served as quality control of offense, was named the new quarterbacks coach, while offensive assistant Richie Hessman will serve as quality control of offense.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Schedule, Preseason
The Titans preseason schedule was announced on March 31, 2010.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Schedule, Regular season
The Titans' regular season schedule was announced on April 20, 2010.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Oakland Raiders
The Titans began their season at home against the Oakland Raiders. Tennessee trailed early in the first quarter as Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski made a 34-yard field goal. Tennessee answered as quarterback Vince Young hooked up with wide receiver Nate Washington on a 56-yard touchdown pass, followed by kicker Rob Bironas nailing a 43-yard field goal. The Titans added to their lead in the second quarter with a 15-yard touchdown run from running back Javon Ringer, followed by Chris Johnson's 76-yard touchdown run.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Oakland Raiders
Tennessee continued its dominating day in the third quarter as Johnson got a 4-yard touchdown run. In the fourth quarter, the Titans wrapped up their performance with Young finding tight end Bo Scaife on a 1-yard touchdown pass. Afterwards, Oakland ended the game with quarterback Jason Campbell completing a 7-yard touchdown pass to running back Darren McFadden.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Hoping to maintain their winning streak the Titans played on home ground for an AFC duel with the Steelers. In the first quarter the Titans trailed early when WR Antonio Brown returned a kickoff 89 yards to the endzone for a touchdown. The Titans tried to cut the lead with kicker Rob Bironas nailing a 21-yard field goal. In the 2nd quarter the Titans progressively fell further behind with kicker Jeff Reed hitting a 36 and a 34-yard field goal, followed in the fourth quarter by his 25 and 27 yard field goal to go up 19–3. The Titans tried to tie the game when QB Kerry Collins threw a 2-yard TD pass to WR Nate Washington (With the 2-point conversion made), but the Steelers defense prevented any more scoring from the Titans, giving Tennessee the loss.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 3: at New York Giants
Hoping to rebound from their loss to the Steelers, the Titans flew to New Meadowlands Stadium for an interconference duel with the New York Giants. In the first quarter, Tennessee took the early lead when kicker Rob Bironas nailed a 48-yard field goal, followed in the second quarter by running back Chris Johnson getting a 1-yard touchdown run. The Giants replied with kicker Lawrence Tynes nailing a 50-yard field goal, followed by running back Ahmad Bradshaw getting a 10-yard touchdown run to tie the game.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 3: at New York Giants
In the third quarter, near the Giants endzone, a Chop Block penalty was enforced on Bradshaw into the endzone for a safety. The Titans started to pull away with quarterback Vince Young completed a 13-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Kenny Britt, followed in the fourth quarter by Bironas getting a 22-yard field goal. Finally, Johnson closed out the game with an 8-yard touchdown run.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Denver Broncos
The Titans' fourth game was an AFC duel with the Broncos at home ground. The Titans trailed early in the 2nd quarter as QB Kyle Orton got a 2-yard TD pass to WR Eddie Royal. They replied with QB Vince Young getting an 8-yard TD pass to WR Kenny Britt. The Broncos' kicker Matt Prater made a 36-yard field goal to give Denver a 3-point lead, but the Titans replied when kicker Rob Bironas nailed an incredible 55-yard field goal.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Denver Broncos
In the 3rd quarter the Titans trailed slightly when Matt Prater made a 36-yard field goal, but after that, WR Marc Mariani returned the kickoff and ran 98 yards to the endzone for a touchdown, giving the Titans the lead. The lead was narrowed when Prater made a 35-yard field goal, but was increased again when Bironas made a 46-yard field goal. In the 4th quarter Tennessee fell behind when QB Kyle Orton completed a 6-yard TD pass to RB Correll Buckhalter, followed by Prater making another 36-yard field goal.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Dallas Cowboys
Hoping to rebound from their home loss to the Broncos, the Titans flew to Cowboys Stadium for a Week 5 interconference duel with the Dallas Cowboys. Tennessee delivered the opening punch in the first quarter as quarterback Vince Young completed a 24-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Nate Washington, followed by kicker Rob Bironas making a 52-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Cowboys answered with kicker David Buehler getting a 51-field goal. In the second quarter, the Titans added to their lead as Young connected with wide receiver Kenny Britt on a 12-yard touchdown pass. Dallas came right back with quarterback Tony Romo completing a 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roy Williams.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys tied the game in the third quarter as Romo threw a 69-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Miles Austin, yet Tennessee regained the lead as Bironas booted a 40-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, Dallas caught up again as Buehler kicked a 26-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Titans struck back as running back Chris Johnson got a 1-yard touchdown run. However, the Cowboys tied the game again as Romo connected with tight end Jason Witten on an 18-yard touchdown pass. Fortunately, Tennessee came right back as Johnson got another 1-yard touchdown run.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Jacksonville Jaguars
Coming off their road win over the Cowboys, the Titans flew to EverBank Field for a Week 6 AFC South duel with the Jacksonville Jaguars on Monday night. Tennessee delivered the opening strike in the first quarter as quarterback Vince Young found wide receiver Kenny Britt on a 24-yard touchdown pass. In the second quarter, the Titans added onto their lead as quarterback Kerry Collins hooked up with tight end Bo Scaife on a 2-yard touchdown pass, followed by kicker Rob Bironas booting a 26-yard field goal.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Jacksonville Jaguars
Tennessee continued its dominating night in the third quarter as Bironas nailed a 33-yard field goal. The Jaguars finally answered with a 33-yard field goal from kicker Josh Scobee. The Titans pulled away in the fourth quarter as Bironas booted a 36-yard field goal, capped off by a 35-yard touchdown run from running back Chris Johnson.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Philadelphia Eagles
Hoping to increase their winning streak the Titans played on home ground for an Interconference duel with the Eagles. In the second quarter the Titans trailed with kicker David Akers making a 25-yard field goal. But they put themselves ahead with QB Kerry Collins completing a 26-yard TD pass to WR Kenny Britt. The Eagles replied with QB Kevin Kolb making a 5-yard TD pass to WR Riley Cooper, followed by kicker David Akers hitting a 46-yard field goal. In the third quarter the Titans fell further behind with Akers making a 46-yard field goal.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Philadelphia Eagles
They soon replied with kicker Rob Bironas nailing a 41-yard field goal, but the Eagles continued to score in the 4th with Akers getting a 28-yard field goal. Eventually, they rallied to take a big lead with Collins completing an 80-yard TD pass to Britt, followed by Bironas hitting a 38-yard field goal. Then Collins found Britt for the third time in the game on a 16-yard TD pass, and then Bironas made a 33-yard field goal. The Titans continued to get their momentum going with CB Cortland Finnegan returning an interception 41 yards for a touchdown.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 8: at San Diego Chargers
Hoping to increase their current winning streak the Titans flew to Qualcomm Stadium for an AFC duel with the Chargers. In the first quarter the Titans took the lead when the Chargers' punt was blocked by Nick Schommer out of bounds for a safety. The Chargers replied with FB Mike Tolbert getting a 1-yard TD run. The Titans went on a scoring rally with kicker Rob Bironas nailing a 21-yard field goal, followed in the second quarter by QB Vince Young completing a 1-yard TD pass to TE Craig Stevens.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 8: at San Diego Chargers
They increased their lead with RB Chris Johnson getting a 29-yard TD run. The Chargers went on a scoring rally with RB Ryan Mathews making a 7-yard TD run, followed in the third quarter by kicker Kris Brown making a 34-yard field goal. Then QB Philip Rivers completed a 48-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates, and then Brown made a 36-yard field goal. The Titans tried to come back with Young finding WR Nate Washington on a 71-yard TD pass (with a failed 2-point conversion), but couldn't do anything after Rivers got a 13-yard TD pass to RB Darren Sproles.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Miami Dolphins
Coming off their bye week the Titans flew to Sun Life Stadium for an AFC duel with the Dolphins. In the first quarter the Titans trailed early as RB Ronnie Brown got a 2-yard TD run. They replied with RB Chris Johnson getting a 17-yard TD run. They took the lead after kicker Rob Bironas nailed a 40-yard field goal. They fell behind after kicker Dan Carpenter made a 23 and a 26-yard field goal, which was soon followed by QB Chad Henne completing a 13-yard TD pass to RB Patrick Cobbs.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Miami Dolphins
The Titans replied with QB Vince Young completing a 14-yard TD pass to WR Nate Washington, but fell further behind after Carpenter got a 42-yard field goal, followed by QB Tyler Thigpen making a 9-yard TD pass to TE Anthony Fasano (With a failed 2-point conversion). Then DB Reshad Jones tackled in the end zone for a Dolphins safety.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Washington Redskins
Hoping to break their current losing streak the Titans played on home ground for an AFC duel with the Redskins. In the first quarter the Titans took a sudden lead with WR Marc Mariani returning a punt 87 yards for a touchdown. The Redskins replied with QB Donovan McNabb completing a 5-yard TD pass to WR Santana Moss, followed in the second quarter by kicker Graham Gano nailing a 19-yard field goal. The Titans got the lead back after kicker Rob Bironas made a 25 and a 32-yard field goal.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Washington Redskins
However, the Redskins replied with Gano hitting a 40-yard field goal. The Titans scored with Bironas nailing a 40-yard field goal, but the Redskins replied again with Gano making a 42-yard field goal. The decision was made at Overtime after Gano successfully hit a 48-yard field goal to give the Titans the loss, settling the records for both teams at 5–5 and the Titans' 14-game winning streak against NFC Opponents was snapped.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Washington Redskins
During the game, Vince Young suffered a torn flexor tendon in his right thumb. He was replaced by Rusty Smith. Young was held out of the game after he was prepared to reenter. Following the game, Young threw his shoulder pads into the crowd as he left the field, had an altercation with Coach Fisher in the locker room, and stormed out. Fisher then declared that Smith was the Titans' starting quarterback.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Houston Texans
In an attempt to break a three-game losing streak the Titans flew to Reliant Stadium for an AFC South rivalry match against the Texans. The Titans trailed throughout the game as QB Matt Schaub got a 1-yard TD pass to TE Joel Dreessen, followed by his 2-yard TD pass to WR Andre Johnson. The lead was increased when kicker Neil Rackers hit a 35 and a 33-yard field goal.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Houston Texans
With 7:53 remaining in the 4th quarter, an altercation between Texans WR Andre Johnson and Titans CB Cortland Finnegan broke out, causing both players to be ejected for the rest of the game. Both players' helmets were torn off, then punches were exchanged in return. Despite being ejected, they avoided suspension, but were each fined $25,000 for their actions.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Houston Texans
With the shut-out loss, not only did the Titans fall to 5–6, but this also became their 3rd straight season being shut out on the road.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
Hoping to snap a four-game losing streak the Titans played on home ground for an AFC South rivalry match against the Jaguars. In the first quarter the Titans trailed early as RB Rashad Jennings got an 11-yard TD run. This was followed in the second quarter by QB David Garrard scrambling 4 yards for a touchdown, and then with kicker Josh Scobee making a 26-yard field goal. The Titans tried to cut this lead but only came away with a 37 and a 30-yard field goal from Rob Bironas giving them a loss.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Indianapolis Colts
Hoping to snap a five-game losing streak, the Titans stayed at home for a Week 14 AFC South duel with the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday night. Tennessee trailed in the first quarter as Colts running back Javarris James got a 1-yard touchdown run. Indianapolis added onto their lead in the second quarter with quarterback Peyton Manning completing a 1-yard and a 19-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Pierre Garçon. The Titans answered with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Chris Johnson.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Indianapolis Colts
Tennessee slowly crept back into the game in the third quarter as quarterback Kerry Collins found tight end Craig Stevens on a 7-yard touchdown pass, yet the Colts responded with kicker Adam Vinatieri making a 21-yard field goal. Indianapolis added onto their lead in the fourth quarter with Vinatieri booting a 28-yard field goal. The Titans tried to rally as Collins connected with tight end Bo Scaife on a 4-yard touchdown pass, but the Colts came right back with Vinatieri's 47-yard field goal. Tennessee closed out the game with Collins finding Scaife on a 2-yard touchdown pass.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. Houston Texans
Hoping to snap a six-game losing streak the Titans played on home ground for an AFC South rivalry rematch against the Texans. The Titans took the lead after QB Kerry Collins threw a 3 and a 1-yard TD pass to WR Nate Washington and to WR Justin Gage. This was followed by RB Chris Johnson getting an 11-yard TD run. The Texans got on the scoreboard after kicker Neil Rackers made a 37-yard field goal, but the Titans extended their lead after kicker Rob Bironas hit a 30-yard field goal.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. Houston Texans
The lead was narrowed with QB Matt Schaub getting a 12-yard TD pass to WR Andre Johnson, but the Titans pulled away with RB Javon Ringer getting a 7-yard touchdown run. The lead was narrowed again with Schaub throwing a 4-yard TD pass to WR Kevin Walter, but the Titans' defense prevented any more scoring chances.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 16: at Kansas City Chiefs
Coming off their win over the Texans the Titans flew to Arrowhead Stadium for an AFC duel with the Chiefs. In the first quarter the Titans trailed early as QB Matt Cassel threw a 14 and a 5-yard TD pass to RB Jamaal Charles. This was followed by kicker Ryan Succop nailing a 35-yard field goal, then with Cassel making a 75-yard TD pass to WR Dwayne Bowe.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 16: at Kansas City Chiefs
They tried to come back as QB Kerry Collins got a 53-yard TD pass to WR Kenny Britt, but had more problems as Collins' next pass was intercepted by SS Eric Berry and returned 54 yards for a touchdown. This was followed by Succop making a 42-yard field goal. The Titans tried to come back, but came away only with Collins completing a 22-yard TD pass to TE Jared Cook, which wasn't enough for a win.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 16: at Kansas City Chiefs
With the loss, the Titans fell to 6–9 and a guarantee of their first losing season since 2005.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Indianapolis Colts
The Titans' final game was an AFC South rivalry rematch against the Colts. In the first quarter the Titans trailed early as kicker Adam Vinatieri made a 48-yard field goal, but they responded as kicker Rob Bironas nailed a 26-yard field goal. The Colts scored again with Vinatieri making a 44-yard field goal, but the Titans re-tied the game with Bironas hitting a 42-yard field goal.


2010 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Indianapolis Colts
The Colts tried to pull away with QB Peyton Manning completing a 7-yard TD pass to WR Reggie Wayne, but the Titans kept the score level as QB Kerry Collins made a 30-yard TD pass to WR Kenny Britt. The Colts still tried to pull away with Manning completing a 30-yard TD pass to WR Pierre Garçon, but the Titans re-tied the game for the fourth time as Collins threw a 15-yard TD pass to RB Chris Johnson. The Colts got away in the fourth quarter as Vinatieri got a 43-yard field goal, giving the Titans a loss and thus ending their season with a 6–10 record.


2010 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 2010 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Derek Dooley who was in his first season as the 22nd coach in UT football history. The Vols played their home games at Neyland Stadium and competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference. The Vols played seven home games this season. Derek Dooley won his coaching debut with the Vols 50–0 versus Tennessee-Martin on September 4, 2010, in front of 99,123 at Neyland Stadium.


2010 Tennessee Volunteers football team
They finished the season 6–7, 3–5 in SEC play and were invited to the Music City Bowl where they were defeated by North Carolina 27–30.


2010 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Oregon
Tennessee hosted Oregon on September 11, 2010. The Volunteers took an early lead of 6–0, before a lightning warning delayed the game for over seventy minutes; during the delay the score was 13–3. Oregon would go on to score 45 unanswered points to cruise to an easy 35 point win despite the weather, which appeared to hinder Oregon's fast-paced offense.


2010 Tennessee floods
The May 2010 Tennessee floods were 1,000-year floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi areas of the United States of America as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010. Floods from these rains affected the area for several days afterwards, resulting in a number of deaths and widespread property damage.


2010 Tennessee floods
Two-day rain totals in some areas were greater than 19 inches (480 mm). The Cumberland River crested at 51.86 feet (15.81 m) in Nashville, a level not seen since 1937, which was before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control measures were in place. All-time record crests were observed on the Cumberland River at Clarksville, the Duck River at Centerville and  Hurricane Mills, the Buffalo River at Lobelville, the Harpeth River at Kingston Springs and Bellevue, and the Red River at Port Royal.


2010 Tennessee floods, Meteorology
According to the Memphis Office of the National Weather Service:


2010 Tennessee floods, Meteorology
A significant weather system brought very heavy rain and severe thunderstorms from Saturday, May 1 through Sunday morning, May 2. A stalled frontal boundary coupled with very moist air streaming northward from the Gulf set the stage for repeated rounds of heavy rainfall. Many locations along the I-40 corridor across western and middle Tennessee reported in excess of 10 to 15 inches, with some locations receiving up to 20 inches according to Doppler radar estimates.


2010 Tennessee floods, Meteorology
Several rainfall records in the Nashville area were broken during the rain event. 13.57 inches (345 mm) fell during the two-day period of May 1–2, doubling the record of 6.68 inches (170 mm) set in September 1979 during the passage of the remnants of Hurricane Frederic. On May 2 alone, 7.25 inches (184 mm) of rain fell, including 7.20 inches (183 mm) during a 12-hour period and 5.57 inches (141 mm) in a 6-hour period, eclipsing records set on September 13, 1979. The event also set a record for wettest May on record, surpassing the record set in May 1983 with 11.84 inches (301 mm).


2010 Tennessee floods, Meteorology
Heavy rain also affected large portions of Arkansas, northern Mississippi and southern Kentucky. In Arkansas, over 5 inches (130 mm) fell in the Little Rock area, up to 8 inches (200 mm) in West Memphis and over 10 inches (250 mm) in northeastern Arkansas closer to the Mississippi River. Similar amounts were recorded across western and southern Kentucky where over 7 inches (180 mm) fell in the Hopkinsville area and up to 4 inches (100 mm) across the Missouri Bootheel. In addition to the heavy rain, moist air and ample instability contributed to the generation of multiple tornadoes affecting the same areas, which killed five people: four in Mississippi during the early hours of May 2, and one in Arkansas during the evening of April 30.


2010 Tennessee floods, Casualties
Twenty-one deaths were recorded in Tennessee, including ten in Davidson County, which includes Nashville. Of the ten dead in Davidson County, "four victims were found in their homes, two were in cars and four were outdoors."


2010 Tennessee floods, Casualties
Floods killed six people in northern Mississippi, and four deaths were reported in Kentucky.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage
At least 30 counties in Tennessee were declared major disaster areas by the federal government, with 52 applying to receive this status. This translates to about 31% of Tennessee being designated a major disaster area.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee
Almost all schools in the area were closed including Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, some for a week or more. Many roads were damaged by water erosion. Interstate 40 west of Nashville had numerous spots that had been inundated. Repair work on I-40 continued for several months.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
The first site of major flooding was along Mill Creek in southeastern Davidson County, which was affected by a flash flood on May 1. The creek quickly spilled over its banks, and completely covered Interstate 24 near Antioch, killing one person in a car. A TDOT traffic camera captured footage of a large portable building being swept away from Lighthouse Christian School and coming to rest among the traffic on I-24, which was broadcast live on local television. Another person was killed along Mill Creek while attempting to tube the floodwaters.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
Flooding on the Cumberland River damaged the Grand Ole Opry House, Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Opry Mills, Bridgestone Arena (home to NHL team Nashville Predators), and LP Field (home to NFL team Tennessee Titans) with several feet of water.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
Grand Ole Opry performances were moved to other venues in the Nashville area, with the Ryman Auditorium serving as the primary venue when available. Other venues hosting the Opry include the War Memorial Auditorium, TPAC's Andrew Jackson Hall, Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Lipscomb University's Allen Arena and the Two Rivers Baptist Church. Both the Ryman and War Memorial Auditoriums were previous homes to the Opry. None of these facilities were affected by the floods. The Grand Ole Opry House reopened to much fanfare on September 28, 2010.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
The basement flooded in Schermerhorn Symphony Center, causing the destruction of two Steinway grand concert pianos and one organ valued at $2.5 million.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
The common areas of the Gaylord Opryland Hotel were destroyed, and parts of the hotel were under 10 feet (3 m) of water at the peak of the floods. It remained closed until November 2010. The studios of WSM radio, located in the Gaylord Opryland Hotel, were also flooded. This forced the station to broadcast from a makeshift studio at its transmitter site in Brentwood for six months. WSM's administrative offices next to the Grand Ole Opry House were also completely destroyed and later demolished, resulting in the loss of several priceless documents from the station's history. Neighboring Opry Mills mall was also inundated, and remained closed until March 29, 2012.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
Flooding was reported in a mechanical room of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, but the exhibits were not damaged.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
The playing field, ground level facilities (such as locker rooms), and service entrance of LP Field were under water.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
40 feet (12 m) of water filled the underground parking garage of The Pinnacle at Symphony Place, a 417-foot (127 m) tower in downtown that opened in February 2010, less than three months before the flood. Electric and elevator systems housed in the garage were damaged.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
In Belle Meade, a neighborhood of Nashville, the ground floor of St. George's Episcopal Church  was flooded.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
In the early morning of May 4, flooding at a Nashville Electric Service substation caused power to go out in the center of the city. Among the buildings that lost electricity was the 617-foot (188 m) AT&T Building, the tallest building in Tennessee. Power was not expected to be restored until Friday, May 7.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
The newsroom of WTVF was flooded and nonoperational for 3 months. Equipment was hastily moved during the flooding and set up at various locations around the building.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
The Harrington water treatment plant, one of two in the city, flooded and the other was spared by mere feet; on Monday, May 3 residents were ordered to restrict water use, a situation that lasted for about a month.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
The Dry Creek wastewater treatment plant in Madison was flooded with some equipment areas under more than 40 ft of water. Disinfection was quickly restored but recovery efforts required about a month to restore full operation to the major plant processes.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
Nashville/Davidson County was declared a Federal Disaster Area on May 4.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County
According to Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, damage estimates in Nashville totalled $1.5 billion not including damage to roads and bridges or public buildings, as well as contents inside buildings and residences.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Hickman County
The Duck River at Centerville exceeded its record level by almost 10 feet flooding or destroying homes, roads, and agricultural land. One person  in Hickman County died from drowning. Numbers of people who were stranded on I-40 sought refuge in Centerville.


2010 Tennessee floods, Damage, Middle Tennessee, Montgomery County
The Cumberland River in Clarksville flooded many businesses along the river. Flooded businesses were closed for up to seven weeks. All schools in the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System were closed for at least two weeks.


2010 Tennessee floods, Relief efforts
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee raised $14 million from individual donors and was allocated in various grants. The Metro Nashville Disaster Response Fund received roughly $3.5 million, the Tennessee Emergency Response Fund around $5.5 million, the River Fund $5 million, and other relief efforts received $234,000.


2010 Tennessee floods, Relief efforts
The River Fund was created with proceeds from Garth Brooks' December 2010 concerts for flood relief and served the 52 flood-affected counties in Tennessee.


2010 Tennessee floods, Relief efforts
On June 22, 2010, a benefit concert called "Nashville Rising" was held at Bridgestone Arena to raise money for Middle Tennessee flood relief efforts. The concert raised over $2.2 million for flood relief efforts.


2010 Tennessee floods, Relief efforts
American singer Taylor Swift donated $500,000 during a telethon hosted by WSMV.


2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election
The 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen was term-limited and unable to seek re-election to a third term in office. Knoxville mayor Bill Haslam, the Republican nominee, defeated Democratic nominee Mike McWherter.


2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election
News organizations The Cook Political Report, CQ Politics, and The New York Times rated the gubernatorial election as leaning Republican, while The Rothenberg Political Report rated it as "Republican favored," RealClearPolitics and Sabato's Crystal Ball as "Likely Republican", and Rasmussen Reports as "Solid Republican."


2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election, Primary election
The primary election was held on August 5, 2010. A recorded debate Featuring 3 of the candidates, organized by campaign coordinator James Crenshaw, was held at the Scarett-Benett Center in Nashville, TN.


2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election, General election, Results
(Percentages rounded to nearest 1/100th, will not add up fully to 100%)


2010 Tennis Napoli Cup
The 2010 Tennis Napoli Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Naples, Italy between 29 March and 4 April 2010.


2010 Tennis Napoli Cup, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Tennis Napoli Cup, Champions, Doubles
Dustin Brown /  Jesse Witten def. Rohan Bopanna /  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, 7–6(4), 7–5


2010 Tennis Napoli Cup – Doubles
Pablo Cuevas and David Marrero were the defending champions, but they chose to not participate. Dustin Brown and Jesse Witten won in the final 7–6(4), 7–5, against Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.


2010 Tennis Napoli Cup – Singles
Pablo Cuevas was the defending champion, however he chose not to participate this year.


2010 Tennis Napoli Cup – Singles
Rui Machado won the title, defeating Federico Delbonis 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2010 Tennislife Cup
The 2010 Tennislife Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Naples, Italy between 27 September and 3 October 2010.


2010 Tennislife Cup, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Tennislife Cup, Champions, Doubles
Daniel Muñoz-de la Nava /  Simone Vagnozzi def. Andreas Haider-Maurer /  Bastian Knittel, 1–6, 7–6(5), [10–6]


2010 Tennislife Cup – Doubles
Frederico Gil and Ivan Dodig were the defending champions, but Dodig decided not to participate. As a result, Gil partnered up with James Cerretani. They lost to Yves Allegro and Jesse Huta Galung already in the first round.


2010 Tennislife Cup – Singles
Frederico Gil was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Andreas Haider-Maurer. Fabio Fognini won this tournament, after Boris Pašanski´s retirement in the final, when the result was 6–4, 4–2 for the Italian player.


2010 Tercera División play-offs
The 2010 Tercera División play-offs to Segunda División B from Tercera División (Promotion play-offs) were the final playoffs for the promotion from 2009–10 Tercera División to 2010–11 Segunda División B. The first four teams in each group (excluding reserve teams) took part in the play-off.


2010 Tercera División play-offs, Format
The eighteen group winners had the opportunity to be promoted directly to Segunda División B. The eighteen group winners were drawn into a two-legged series where the nine winners promoted to Segunda División B. The nine losing clubs entered the play-off round for the last nine promotion spots.


2010 Tercera División play-offs, Format
The eighteen runners-up were drawn against one of the seventeen fourth-placed clubs outside their group and the eighteen third-placed clubs were drawn against one another in a two-legged series. The twenty-seven winners advanced with the nine losing clubs from the champions' series to determine the eighteen teams that entered the last two-legged series for the last nine promotion spots. In all the playoff series, the lower-ranked club played at home first. Whenever there was a tie in position (e.g. like the group winners in the champions' series or the third-placed teams in the first round), a draw determined the club to play at home first.


2010 Tercera División play-offs, Eliminatories, 1st eliminatory (2nd, 3rd and 4th of group)
For 2nd, 3rd and 4th of group only. 2nds played against 4ths and 3rds played against each other.


2010 Tercera División play-offs, Eliminatories, 2nd eliminatory
Winners of 1st eliminatory (2nd, 3rd and 4th of group) (27 teams) and losers of 1st eliminatory (1st of group) (9 teams).


2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster
The 2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster was an industrial accident that occurred at the Tesoro Anacortes Refinery in Anacortes, Washington on April 2, 2010. Seven workers received fatal burns in an explosion and ensuing fire when a heat exchanger violently ruptured after a maintenance restart.


2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster, Explosion
At 12:30 a.m. on April 2, while personnel were performing post-maintenance heat exchanger restart operations, a heat exchanger on an adjacent bank catastrophically and violently ruptured. The pressure-containing shell of the heat exchanger burst at its weld seams, expelling a large volume of very hot hydrogen and naphtha, which spontaneously ignited upon contact with the surrounding air. The ensuing explosion was so violent that many in Anacortes felt the shock wave across Fidalgo Bay. A giant fireball lit up the sky above the refinery, and a plume of black smoke was pushed toward the town by a southeast wind. It took about 90 minutes to put the fire out.


2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster, Aftermath
Tesoro agreed to pay millions to families of the victims, but as of 2020 the company continued to fight a fine and government accusations that it willfully put its workers in harm's way.


2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster, Aftermath
The Tesoro refinery had been fined $85,700 in 2009 for 17 "serious" safety violations — meaning there was a risk of "death or serious physical injury" from each violation. Those fines were later reduced to three violations and a $12,250 settlement.


2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster, Aftermath
According to the final report released by the CSB, the explosion was caused by high temperature hydrogen attack (HTHA), which severely cracked and weakened carbon steel tubing and led to the rupture. As a result, the CSB recommended the state adopt more rigorous process safety management attributes and features based on the team's regulatory analysis. The Nelson curve for carbon steel was also reduced, prohibiting the use of the material in processes that operate in temperatures above 400 degrees Fahrenheit.


2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster, Aftermath
The accident was the state's worst industrial disaster in 50 years. A similar incident occurred in November 1998, when six men were killed in explosion at the Equilon Puget Sound Refinery in Anacortes.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The 2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team (often referred to as "A&M" or the "Aggies") represented Texas A&M University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by third-year head coach Mike Sherman and played their home games at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. The team's defense was led by first-year coach Tim DeRuyter. They were members of the South Division of the Big 12 Conference.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The Aggies finished the season 9–4, 6–2 in Big 12 play and were South Division champions with Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. They were invited to the Cotton Bowl Classic where they were defeated by LSU, 24–41.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Kansas
Jerrod Johnson and Ryan Tannehill split time at quarterback for the first time.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
Texas A&M defeated Oklahoma for the first time since 2002. Also the first time A&M beat a ranked opponent at home since 2007 Texas. It was an upset victory that included 3 goal-line stands by the A&M defense. OU ran 15 plays under the Aggie 10-yard line, and gained only 11 yards. Michael Hodges was part of the 3 goal-line stands. He earned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week honors for his career-high 19 tackles. A&M also became ranked after the game, for the first time since September 21, 2007.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
Oklahoma's loss was historically significant. OU ran the most plays (104) in its history, beating the previous record of 102. In games in which the Sooners ran more than 90 plays, the Sooners had been 39–0. The Sooners also had only 29 first downs; OU was 57–0 before the game, in which it made at least 29 first downs.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Baylor
Cyrus Gray picked up 137 rushing yards for a career-high of 4 touchdowns.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Nebraska
Record-setting crowd of 90,079. Cyrus Gray's fifth consecutive 100-yard rushing game (Darren Lewis 1990). Trent Hunter had 2 interceptions. Nebraska was charged with a school-record 16 penalties for a total of 145 yards, and Texas A&M only had 2 penalties for 10 yards. No touchdowns were scored for either team, and all of the points were scored by way of field goals. Taylor Martinez re-injured his right ankle in the first quarter when he was stepped on by one of his offensive linemen.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Nebraska
Questionable roughing the passer call against Nebraska. Bo Pelini's behavior during the game was called into question.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Nebraska
Aggies won Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National Team of the Week.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Texas
Cyrus Gray had a 200-yard game, first A&M RB since Leeland McElroy 1995. This game pushed Cyrus Gray over the 1,000 yard rushing mark for the 2010 season. Texas finished with its first losing season since 1997. With the win, the Aggies won a share of the Big 12 South Division title.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies football team, NFL Draft
1st Round, 2nd Overall Pick by the Denver Broncos—Sr. LB Von Miller.


2010 Texas A&M Aggies women's soccer team
The 2010 Texas A&M Aggies women's soccer team represented Texas A&M University in the 2010 NCAA Division I women's college soccer season. The team belongs to the Big 12 Conference and played its home games at Aggie Soccer Stadium. The Aggies were led by G. Guerrieri, who has coached the team since the program's inception in 1993 (18 years).


2010 Texas A&M Aggies women's soccer team
The Aggies finished the season 15–5–3 and won the Big 12 regular season championship with an 8–1–1 record. They advanced to the 2nd Round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament before falling to Minnesota 2–0 in icy conditions in Minneapolis, MN.