In response to our friends over at VICE Sports US nominating their favourite stories from the last 12 months, the gang Down Under thought we'd do the same. Australian editor Jed Smith and New Zealand editor Ben Stanley went back through the archives and found a dozen of our best from a year—sporting or otherwise—that few of us will ever forget:Ben Stanley, March 2"Martin Crowe, the finest batsman in New Zealand cricket history, lived a life full of individuality, poise, and honest eagerness."Ben Stanley, March 31"It was on the beach in front of the Compleat Angler Hotel on Bimini Island, where the two old cobbers stripped off their shirts, put up their dukes and went at it. It was the summer of 1935 in the Bahamas, and a heavyweight duel like few others in history was about to take place."Read more over on VICE Sports AUNZ.