Dreadful Losing Streaks

Among the worst losing streaks in sports history, you have the Tampa Bay Bucaneers who were 0 for 1976 going 0-14 en route to 26 straight losses. You also have the Prairie View A&M NCAA football team who went 80 straight games dating from 1989-1998 without a win. And who can forget the lovable losers, the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, who've gone 86 years and 98 years, respectively, without winning a World Series in Major League Baseball. While on the flipside, you have the Miami Dolphins of 1972 going 17-0 in the 1972 NFL season, the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team going 88 straight games without a loss, and North Carolina's NCAA women's soccer had a 103-game unbeaten streak.

In the world of fighting terrorism here at home, John Ashroft and the DOJ has its own losing streak. They own the distinction of not having one conviction in the 5,000 foreign nationals detained in antiterrorism sweeps since 9/11, says David Cole of The Nation. Zero for 5,000 that's not too impressive in any league and tack on the Supreme Court case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (and companion cases), which overruled the Bush Administration's detention policy toward enemy combatants, and it has not been a banner couple of years for Ashcroft.