- List of sporting scandals
This is a list of major
sport sscandal s:*
Black Sox Scandal (1919)
*Ty Cobb andTris Speaker 's game fixing (1926)
*Pete Rose gambling onbaseball -Dowd Report (1989)
*Mickey Mantle andWillie Mays banned from baseball for being doormen in anAtlantic City Casino (1970s)
*Billy Collins V Luis Resto scandal
*IMSA Camel GT drug smuggling scandal (1980s) - A group of drivers was arrested for drug smuggling which was used to finance their racing activities, the Whittington brothers (Bill and Don),Randy Lanier and father and son,John Paul Sr. and Jr. would all by 1987 be imprisoned under various charges.
*Darrell Alderman 's drug possession scandal [http://www.nhra.com/50th/news/headlines.html?year=1991] (1991)
*Drug abuse insports — Numerous cases, among them:
**Ben Johnson (1988)
**University of South Carolina steroid scandal (1988)
**BALCO (2004-05), which eventually led to:
*** "Game of Shadows ", a 2006 book that alleges extensive use of performance-enhancing drugs byBarry Bonds
***Marion Jones , American athlete, admitting in 2007 that she had used a steroid popularly known as "the clear" prior to her winning five medals at the2000 Summer Olympics
*** The "Mitchell Report", in which 88 current and formerMajor League Baseball players are alleged to have used steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs
*Clemson University football recruiting scandal (1982)
*Southern Methodist University boosters giving football players thousands of dollars from a "slush fund", which along with prior NCAA violations, led the NCAA to level the "death penalty" on the school's football team.
* Collegebasketball point shaving scandals (many times, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, with more recent scandals in 1978-79, 1984, and 1994)
*University of Michigan basketball scandal : four players, most notablyChris Webber , were paid by a booster to launder money from his gambling operations. In some cases, the payments extended to their high school days.
*Diego Maradona - Arrived at the1994 FIFA World Cup and played two games (scoring one goal) before being sent home after failing a drug test forephedrine doping.
*Olympic Games scandals :
**Tonya Harding andNancy Kerrigan incident (1994)
**Johann Mühlegg -Salt Lake City scandal - finished first in the50 km classical race in Cross-country skiing in theWinter Olympic Games on February 23, 2002, but was disqualified from that race and was expelled from the Games the next day, after testing positive fordarbepoetin .
**2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal
**IOCbribery - see2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal
*Hansiegate scandal in 2000 involving former South African cricket captainHansie Cronje with three other teammates for involving in match fixing.
*Another cricket scandal in 1994 involving Australia'sMark Waugh andShane Warne which came to light 4 years later.
*Bruce Grobbelaar 's match fixing allegation (1994)
*Toyota Team Europe 'sturbocharger scandal (1995). TheToyota factory backed WRC team was banned from for 12 months after being discovered competing with a tampered air restrictor, allowing for more power over the permitted amount. [http://freespace.virgin.net/shalco.com/tte_ban.htm]
*George O'Leary resume fabrication (2001). This forced him to resign as headAmerican football coach at Notre Dame.
*Canterbury Bulldogs (2002) - Australian rugby league team were stripped 37 competition points for extensivesalary cap breaches, going from 1st place to last place on the ladder as a result.
*Jim Harrick resigned as head coach at theUniversity of Georgia in 2002 after his son, Jim harrick Jr., provided an easy exam to Georgia basketball players and other students in a basketball coaching class that he taught and paid a $300 phone bill for a player (Tony Cole).
*Angela's Motorsports scandal (2003)
*Kamp Staaldraad - controversial training camp for the Springboks (South Africa 's nationalrugby union team) before the2003 Rugby World Cup
*Baylor University basketball scandal (2003) - playerPatrick Dennehy wasmurder ed by teammate Carlton Dotson. Later, coachDave Bliss instructed his players to lie to NCAA investigators that Dennehy dealt drugs. In the wake of these events, numerous violations of NCAA rules were discovered.
*Fresno Case scandal (2004) - an attempt to rig a vote to prevent the Catalanrink hockey team from being accepted into international competition
*Christodoulou kart engine scandal (2005) -Adam Christodoulou and other drivers competed in kart races with illegally tampered engine built by Adam's father Peter, resulting in a one year ban and £30,000 fine for the engine builder.
*2005 Bundesliga scandal - amatch fixing scandal in German football centering on disgraced refereeRobert Hoyzer
*Minnesota Vikings boat party scandal (2005) - a pleasure cruise featuring sexual shenanigans by several members of theMinnesota Vikings of the NFL
*Brazilian football match-fixing scandal (2005) - another match fixing scandal involving referees, this time inBrazil
*Operation Slapshot - investigation into a gambling ring allegedly operated byNational Hockey League assistant coachRick Tocchet (2006)
*2006 Serie A scandal - a match fixing scandal in Italian football involving three of the country's four qualifiers to the 2006-07 UEFA Champions League
*Colorado Recruiting Scandal
*2006 Duke University lacrosse case - a stripper hired by several team members for an informal team party falsely accused three players ofrape
*June 19 ,2006 -NASCAR team ownerGene Haas was arrested for personal and business tax evasion.
* Operación Puerto (2006) - a Spanish investigation into a doping scheme allegedly involving many top cyclists, including several potential contenders in the2006 Tour de France
*2006 rugby union handbag controversy - initially an incident in which oneNew Zealand rugby player allegedly struck a fellow player with a woman's handbag; became more controversial when Australia'sSeven Network aired a commercial parodying the incident, in which images of theAll Blacks performing their pre-match haka were digitally altered to show the players carrying handbags.
*2006 Kapa O Pango controversy - Australian coach John Connolly suggests that theAll Blacks ' Kapo O Pango haka should be banned, stating that the throat slitting gesture at the end is a bad example to young kids. The haka was also reviewed earlier in the year, creating more controversy.
*2007 NASCAR Gatorade Duel Scandal
*National Football League player conduct controversy (2007—"present") - Various incidents involvingAmerican football athletes from theNational Football League and their conduct off the field and involvement with law enforcement. Notably, Adam "Pacman" Jones, Terry "Tank" Johnson, and Chris Henry's actions that subsequently got them suspended.
*Doping at the 2007 Tour de France – The2007 Tour de France was rocked by a series of doping scandals. Two riders, including pre-race favoriteAlexander Vinokourov , were disqualified for doping offenses. Both teams involved pulled out of the Tour. A third rider, who had abandoned the Tour after a crash, was revealed to have tested positive for testosterone before the Tour. The race leader,Michael Rasmussen , was removed from the Tour by his team with four stages left amid questions surrounding his possible involvement in doping.
*2007 Formula One espionage controversy , commonly known as Stepneygate; an incident in whichScuderia Ferrari mechanicNigel Stepney passed on secret document toMike Coughlan ofMcLaren .
*Tim Donaghy – NBA referee under investigation in 2007 for betting on league games, including some in which he worked.
* Ten of the twelve members of the gold medal-winning Spanish basketball team at the2000 Summer Paralympics are revealed to have no disability.
* In theCommonwealth of Independent States Cup 2006 theArmenia n championFC Pyunik refused to play with anAzerbaijan i team,PFC Neftchi . The teamFC Pyunik won the Ukrainian teamFC Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 in the quarter-final, when it already knew that in case of victory they will have to play againstPFC Neftchi . After the match, they told the referee they wont play against anAzerbaijan i team, and already in the evening leftMoscow on an airplane. TheRussian Football Union gaveFC Shakhtar Donetsk a technical victory 3-0 so they could play in the half-final instead ofFC Pyunik , butFC Shakhtar Donetsk declined the offer stating that "...we would really want to play in the half-final, but we don't want to get there by any other way then sport". Eventually, because no one could play againstPFC Neftchi in the half-final,PFC Neftchi was right away promoted to the final, where it won theLithuania n clubFBK Kaunas 4-2. [ [http://www.newsru.com/sport/19jan2006/scandal.html Новости NEWSru.com :: Скандал на Кубке Содружества: чемпионы Армении отказались играть с азербайджанцами ] ]
*Max Mosley's S&M dungeon allegation (2008) - later resulted in a successful lawsuit bought on by theFIA president against theNews of the World newspaper, who covered the scandal.
*Horse murders -- From 1975 - 1995 wealthy owners and trainers ofshow jumping horses conspire to electrocute and otherwise kill over-valued as well as under-performing animals in a 20-year-long scheme to defraud insurance companies; crimes also committed during this equestrian sports scandal include extortion, mail fraud, aninal cruelty, and the murder of at least one human being.
*Jake LaMotta -Billy Fox fight fixing scandal.
*Sugar Ray Leonard -Roberto Duran 's rematch's "No Mas" controversy and scandal.References
External links
* [http://www.armchairgm.com/index.php?title=Sports_Scandals ArmchairGM's Top 25 Sports Scandals]
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