Tag Archives: Scandals
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Lance Armstrong Tweeted a Big “F You” to His Critics Over The Weekend
Lance Armstrong has been accused of doping by practically every teammate he had during his unprecedented run of seven straight Tour de France titles. And of course, the United States Anti-Doping Agency has concluded that he doped, and that he bullied his teammates into doping. So they recommended that the International Cycling Union strip him [...]
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15 Biggest Summer Olympics Scandals
When you gather 10,500 athletes from 205 nations together for a major international sports competition, you can expect a good scandal or two. But the 2012 Summer Olympics are just one week old, and we’ve already seen four fairly historic controversies—two regarding the outcomes of events, and one that almost kept an event from happening [...]
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13 Sensational Super Bowl Scandals
The thing I like best about the Super Bowl is that it’s not just a sporting event. It’s a pop culture phenomenon, and all the stuff surrounding the actual game—whether it’s the halftime show, or the commercials, or the performance of the National Anthem—has a life of it’s own. Who was that hot girl seen [...]
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The 9 Most Shocking Sex Scandals In College Sports
In the wake of the Penn State scandal (see below), which has dominated the headlines, the question has been asked, “Is it the biggest scandal in college sports history?” Maybe. Probably. We’ll see. Many of the biggest scandals don’t compare, but there are a few that captured law enforcement and public attention on a scale [...]
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9 Sports Cheaters Who Said No To Drugs
A lot of people like to talk about how the rampant use of steroids in baseball during the 1990s and early 2000s tarnished records and ruined the sanctity of “America’s pastime.” But of course, the reality is that baseball players—and all athletes, actually—have been cheating since…um, forever. It’s not like Jose Canseco was the first [...]
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9 Athletic Scandals We Couldn’t Make Up If We Tried
These might not all be the worst scandals in sports, or the funniest, but they’re pretty damn crazy. A few are within the realm of possibility, but would require a crack writing team to craft the stories any better than fate did. Some of them are funny, some are sad, all are weird as hell. [...]
