Is there any way to tidally lock Earth to the Sun in its current state?

I've been toying around with the idea of a tidally locked Earth. Spent the better majority of today figuring out weather patterns, habitable zones, etc, but I missed one big detail: How the hell did the Earth get tidally locked? At first I toyed with the idea of a meteor hitting the planet with the impact countering the direction of the spin and it magically slowing to a halt. Then I remembered that if a meteor hit the Earth with enough force to stop its spin, pretty much every damn thing on the planet would be dead. I'm generally trying to avoid that.
Another idea I played with was some weird giant gyroscope experiment gone awry, but that sounds like a bit of a cop out.

Is there any mechanism by which the Earth could become tidally locked to the Sun within the span of 100 years?

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