The Spectrum's top 10 sports moments, per ESPN

ESPN's list of top 10 moments at the soon-to-be-dearly-departed Spectrum includes Ron Hextall's goal, so I approve of the list:



Needless to say I didn't see any of those events live. But my fondest memories of the Spectrum are indeed sports moments, not concerts. I got to see a couple of Sixers games in the early 1980s, where Dr. J would go flying across the court and the late Dave Zinkoff would announce the basket with a call of "Julius ERRRRRRRR-ving!" Go ahead and skip to 1:37 and note that it's pretty darn late in his career (it's the "rock the baby" move during the 1983 NBA finals where the Sixers swept the Lakers):



Michael Jordan had to learn from somebody, after all.