The 100 Worst Ideas
100. I-285.
99. Transporting cattle through Seguin, Texas.
98. Whip Inflation Now.
97. There she is -- a lot of her -- Vanessa Williams.
96. Naming Ron Zook head coach at Florida.
95. Faking your son's death to get out of work.
94. Doing road work on the Atlanta Downtown Connector on Opening Night.
93. The College of Coaches.
92. Televising William Hung.
91. The Montreal Expos.
90. Dean's Iowa "concession speech."
89. Connie Chung Tonight.
88. Gigli.
87. Powder blue uniforms.
86. Maurice Clarett.
85. Sonic's advertising campaign.
84. Having your students write about who they would kill.
83. "Officials said he will likely keep his job."
82. Deciding to marry Jennifer Wilbanks, the "Runaway Bride," the first time.
81. Deciding to marry Jennifer Wilbanks, the "Runaway Bride," the second time.
80. Britney Spears' first marriage.
79. A former mental patient running for the Senate.
78. Holding the World Cup in Germany at a time of intense racism in soccer.
77. Trying to get ride of a whale when you obviously have no idea what you're doing.
76. Giving a long inaugural address. In the snow. Without a coat.
75. Leaving Pedro Martinez in.
74. Aaron Brown finishing his round of golf. CNN officials have often denied that the incident (where Brown stayed to finish a golf tournament instead of heading back to cover the Columbia disaster, for disputed reasons) had anything to do with the canning of Brown, but the beginning of the end seems to have come around that time. He was put on a fairly tight leash during the war in Iraq a month later, and his show was soon stripped of originality. Little more than two years later, one of the best and most original voices in television journalism was out of a job.