A Brief History Of Sport’s Most Unsporting Moments
Honorable Mentions
This list is by no means complete, but limitations of time and space mean that some topics are better left for another day. The people in the pictures below have had their moments under the spotlight. Who are they and what did they do (answers this time tomorrow)?
Answers (clockwise from left): Tonya Harding – covered up an assault on a rival skater organized by her ex-husband; John Daly – frequent public drunkeness; Zinedine Yazid Zidane – headbutted Italian soccer player; Chicago White Sox – threw a world series; Ben Johnson – set the world 100m sprint record (on steroids); Wessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje – match fixing (cricket).
Acknowledgements
We tried to reflect the international nature of our site with the scope of this post. This was a team production and reflects the many and varied interests of not just myself, but also JeffG from We Interrupt Global Reports and Vic da Silva. In general, our sources for these documents have long since been forgotten, however, where appropriate, we provided a source link to the Wikipedia entries for either the athletes, or the incidents. Wikipedia proved invaluable for establishing the dates and finer details of each of the events.
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Perhaps you should review what the term “clock-wise” means.
Rolling a cricket ball is worse than biting someone’s ear off?? Granted I know next to nothing of the English sport – but c’mon.
The sports were not in any particular order, of course I would rather have a ball rolled to me than my ear bitten off, but the rolled ball created a hell of a stink as it was seen as a cowardly play. It cast the Australian team in a bad light for many years after, even the Australian players on the field thought it was a gutless move.
How can they leave off Woody Hayes coming from the sideline to level an opposing player running for a touchdown??
I’m only a mere mortal, but that incident just might make the next list.
Two comments: ON Kermit Washington, I saw that game and did not then and still do not believe it was bad sportsmanship. You have skirmish going on adrenaline is high and a player from the opposite team is running at you. I dont know about anyone else but I think if you put yourself in the same shoes you are going to protect yourself and while some do it by running some tend to throw out a fist or kick.
Mike Tyson: During and after the first fight Tyson was complaining of headbutts from Holyfield, a number or other fighters also stepped forward and stated the same, Holyfield tends to lead and hit with his head. During the second fight Tyson again was complaining of headbutts. Holyfield is at least 6 inches taller than tyson why is his head hitting tyson on the forehead. bad sportsmanship on tyson but should also have been on Holyfield
Hmmm…like the list but if you’re going to call out dopers how about Roger Clemens ongoing boorish and deceitful behavior and taking the sportsworld and Congress for idiots with his own brand of sophistry. Also, throw in his bat throwing incident in the World Series and a professional philistine is complete.