Manny Ramirez & Other Sports Scandals

The Program is censored

This wasn’t really a sports scandal so much a movie scandal, but when The Program came out in 1993 it included a scene where members of the football team lay down in the middle of the highway. After two boys were killed imitating the stunt, Buena Vista cut the scene and destroyed the negatives. It has never been seen again. Kind of makes you wonder about “Jackass”, huh?

Jose Canseco Writes a Book

It’s not the steroid scandal that he delves into in “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ’Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big” that interests me, but can Jose Canseco even read?

1919 Black Sox Scandal

I wasn’t alive for this one, but they made a John Cusack movie about it, so it couldn’t have been that bad. I mean, come on, John Cusack?

George Brett running out of the dugout after hearing his homerun didn’t count.

Nancy Kerrigan gets Attacked

Nancy Kerrigan, America’s figure skating sweetheart who mostly no on had heard about, was brutally attacked before the 1994 Olympic trials. It was discovered that her attacker had been hired by Jeff Gillooly, husband of Kerrigan’s competitor Tonya Harding. Though she would go on to skate and win the silver medal at Lillehammer (losing out to Oksana Baiul), it was her sobbing “Why Me??” that will live on in everyone’s memory, like it or not.

Lance Armstrong Tests Positive for Steroids

Get real, it’s only a matter of time. Live strong my ass.