As 2010 draws to a close, no one will be happier to see it go than Charlotte sports fans.

From the Carolina Panthers to the Charlotte Bobcats to Johnson C. Smith University sports, this has been the year we’d all like to forget.

Let’s start with the Panthers:
• The team enters its final home game Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals with a disappointing record of 1-12.

• We have a quarterback who has thrown more touchdown passes to the opposing defenses than to his own team.

• The 1,000-yard receiver Steve Smith and the 1,000-yard rusher Jonathan Stewart have a little more than 500 yards each with only three games left.

• The team’s points average is barely more than that of the area hockey team, the Charlotte Checkers.

• It’s amazing that a team that drafted three quarterbacks in 2010 doesn’t have a single NFL-quality player to throw the ball.

Now for the Bobcats:
• We began the year with a first-round exit from last season’s playoffs.

• Team owner Michael Jordan began the 2010 season by promising better.

• On Saturday, the team was embarrassed in a 30-point blowout by the Boston Celtics.

• They followed up on Wednesday with a 33-point loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, a losing team.

• In the four games I have attended this season, I have yet to see the Bobcats win.

• The team has an undersized point guard and several small forwards on the court perpetrating as a starting five.

• The leading scorer, Stephen Jackson, also leads the team in turnovers.

• Its best player, Gerald Wallace, is injury prone.

• Its most all-around productive player, Tyrus Thomas, doesn’t start and doesn’t play enough minutes.

• Kwame Brown, brought in as a starting center and defensive stopper, is three buffets shy of being in game shape.

• The Bobcats are 9-16 on the season with 57 games left. They still can make the playoffs but expect another quick exit.

We'll end with JCSU Sports:
• The football team went 2-8 and seems incapable of producing a winning season.

• They lost 0-59 to North Carolina Central, and 6-64 to Fayetteville State.

• After a four-game losing streak that included Belmont Abbey College, the JCSU men’s basketball team last night pulled to a disappointing 4-4.

• The team got to even on the season in a 95-86 overtime win against Virginia State University, which is 1-6 this year and has lost six straight.

• The one bright spot has been the JCSU women’s basketball team, which is undefeated through seven games. We’re proud of you, Lady Golden Bulls.

Regardless of how bad it’s been, I am, was and always will be a Charlotte sports fan. Let’s just hope 2011 gives us something to cheer about.

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