From highlights to lowlights, sports memories can happen at any time

While the New England Patriots have been the top sports dog around these parts in recent years, there's something about the Boston Red Sox that many still hold dear. With the men's World Cup in North America, I recently shared some of my favorite in-person sports memories and asked readers for the memorable moments that remain ingrained in their minds.Red Sox memories certainly stick out.

Frances McQueeney recalled joining seven other family members, ages ranging from 11 to 62, for a game in April 2002. What may have seemed like an early-season game with little on the line turned into something her family still talks about, even if they weren't saying anything during the game.McQueeney said it was the fifth or sixth inning when she looked at her brother-in-law as zeros filled the scoreboard."

Neither of us said it BUT we knew what we were watching," McQueeney wrote. "Derek Lowe was on a mission. I also remember him hopping over the first base line as he walked back and forth from the mound.

I had never witnessed that superstition before. The crowd STOOD for the last few innings … it was electric and a THRILL to watch."

Lowe was pitching a no-hitter before the packed crowd and completed the accomplishment just a walk shy of a perfect game.George Kortyna's experience may have come at the other end of the pitching spectrum, but it remains just as memorable.Scoring tickets for a Memorial Day weekend game in 1993 against the Texas Rangers, Kortyna said he was determined to stay to the end despite his family's pleas to leave early as the score became a blowout."

The seats were great, a few rows behind the 1st base dugout. But the game was a total blow-out,and my kids and wife were bored to tears, and started begging me to leave," Kortyna wrote. "But I stood firm, this is probably the only time in my life I was gonna be here, so we are staying until the last out."

Then the unexpected happened. Slugger Jose Canseco was announced as the incoming pitcher. "If you think about it, S