this is all about the insider action
outside the game
well taping another team’s signals or
practice or you know that’s against the
rules why would they do that that also
seems small welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten sports scandals Sports
Illustrated says it’s uncovered al
Montes real birth certificate it shows
al Monte was born on April 7th 1987 for
this list we’re focusing on scandals in
the sports world that contain elements
of planning concealing or even
conspiracy there was only one club in
the Lincoln fitting the salary cap was
the Melbourne Storm and we’re excluding
random acts or behaviors that reflect
poorly on only one individual number ten
NFL concussions tells the whole story
when you hear the sound of it on this
punt return for years it was a badge of
honor for ex NFL players to boast about
the violent nature of their sport but
the narrative took a dark turn
once retired athletes began experiencing
symptoms of CTE or chronic traumatic
encephalopathy the football world has
been rocked this week by the sad death
of a former star in 2011 Dave Duerson
took his own life and requested that his
brain be studied for trauma and just one
year later Junior Seau also committed
suicide and was confirmed to be
suffering from CTE after a post-mortem
examination the NFL continues to adopt
new regulations along with the NHL and
their enforcer issue but off the field
problems including domestic violence as
evidenced by the Ray Rice case continue
to fuel the fire Junior Seau died from a
self-inflicted gunshot wound some
speculated that he did so to preserve
his brain a brain it turns out that was
damaged by the game he loved number nine
deflategate however there is an elephant
in the room where regardless of whether
you’re Pro Tom Brady or a steadfast
hater deflategate undoubtedly caused a
storm of selective outrage
2015 after this came out there were a
bunch of quarterbacks who said yeah we
all did this yes it was against the
rules but this is something we all did
it all began during the AFC Championship
game when officials discovered that
official game balls had been deflated
thus allowing Brady to get the upper
hand and this did not come out of thin
air pardon the pun this did not come out
of the NFL’s own theory about the balls
it came from the Colts it came from
perhaps other teams two weeks later the
New England Patriots won another Super
Bowl and shortly after the wells report
concluded it was quote probable that
Brady was complicit I don’t have really
any reaction to my our owner commented
on it yesterday deflategate came over
seven years after another New England
Patriots controversy known as Spygate
which means that somebody has some
explaining to do whomever that may be is
the Super Bowl tainted should there be
what do you guys think
number eight Jerry Sandusky and Penn
State these allegations are false I
didn’t do those things after 61 years
with Penn State you could say that Joe
Paterno had a bit of clout on campus we
drove two hours to get here just for
this just to say goodbye but amid a
disturbing sexual abuse scandal
involving former assistant coach Jerry
Sandusky Paterno’s legacy was forever
tarnished and he passed away just two
months after being fired if you know the
details then you already know just how
heartbreaking this story is for all
involved
Erin Fisher was the first to accuse
Sandusky of being a monster
in fact when Sandusky was convicted the
judge intentionally avoided an abstract
sentence to reinforce the idea that 30
to 60 years in jail had quote the
unmistakable impact of saying clearly
for the rest of your life a community
pillar who founded a charity to work
with at-risk kids a position prosecutors
now say Sandusky used as a hunting
ground for vulnerable victims number
seven the Melbourne Storm salary cap
reach
we had some rats in our ranks those were
the words of Melbourne Storm owner John
Hartigan after his team was involved in
the biggest scandal in Australian sports
history over the last few weeks has come
to light that the storm has engaged in a
long-term system of operating what might
conveniently be called
two sets of books the rugby squad had
one premierships both in 2007 and in
2009 and let’s just say that a few perks
were offered beyond the usual contract
negotiations this club is a great club
it’s a strong Club it’s a very proud
Club some players were given under the
table benefits that doubled their
official contracts and others received
30 large for home and entertainment
expenses the secret files outlining the
under-the-table deals were kept in a
separate room at the storms headquarters
well away from the players legitimate
contracts in the end melbourne continued
to win but only after the largest
sanctions in league history and a
stripping of their titles the penalty
will be the stripping of three minor
premierships and two premierships the
return of 1.1 million dollars in prize
money
a fine of five hundred thousand dollars
number six Tim Donaghy and the 2007 NBA
betting scandal his father had been a
respected ref and college basketball
Tim followed in his footsteps and went
even further making it to the NBA but
Tim said betting was more powerful than
all of that we all know somebody who
thinks the NBA is rigged and after
former basketball referee Tim Donaghy
was convicted of fixing games the
conspiracy theorists snickered with
laughter and did betting on the NBA give
you a higher high than betting on other
sports I think it gave me a higher high
because I was able to predict the
outcome of the games from 2005 to 2007
Donaghy bet thousands of dollars on
games he personally officiated and later
received kickbacks from low-level mafia
figures oh yeah he also worked the
infamous 2004 Indiana Detroit game that
resulted in one of the darkest moments
in league history also known as the
malice in the palace Donaghy was one
sketchy ref and after serving 11 months
in prison he naturally wrote a book
about his experiences making winning
picks is what excites you number five
Lance Armstrong doping allegations this
is a time gap but the man in yellow is
remain active with that usual
determination he was the Golden Boy of
cycling at least until he began throwing
everyone under his wheels there’s that
Indy stopping the lap dog
not in one of the most astonishing cases
of egocentric behavior the sports world
has ever seen Lance Armstrong furiously
denied using performance-enhancing drugs
after winning the Tour de France from
1999 to 2005
there’s 280 pages of medical records
constant interactions with doctors and
nurses and specialists never once
mission it was hard to hurt against
Armstrong a survivor of testicular
cancer and founder of the LIVESTRONG
foundation but the growing amount of
evidence became too much to ignore I
told her to go wherever she wants her
meaning me and I’ll answer the questions
directly honestly and candidly Armstrong
ultimately confessed to Oprah and even
that seemed like yet another performance
yes or no did you ever take banned
substances to enhance your cycling
performance yes number four the 2002
Winter Olympic bid scandal there are
allegations the city won the Winter
Games for the year 2002 by bribing some
members of the International Olympic
Committee every four years the Winter
Olympics showcased the greatest athletes
in the world and it’s also a time for
corrupt benefactors to admire their
illegal purchases and seemly things had
happened but we never had facts no one
had the courage to say well here’s to
the ledger here’s what happened and now
we do in 1995 Salt Lake City was
selected to host the 2002 Games and
three years later the Salt Lake City
organizing committee was suspiciously
protective of their financial documents
when pressed by reporters as an athlete
you’re training your whole life for that
one moment at the 11
but America’s Winter Olympics were mired
in scandal and deficits it was almost
like they didn’t want people to know
that numerous members of the
International Olympic Committee were
given political contributions tuition
money and millions upon millions of
dollars accusations at Salt Lake City
had bribed some IOC members with cash
gifts possibly even the services of
prostitutes so it could get the 2002
games you broke our heart Utah just like
that French judge who sabotaged the 2002
pairs figure skating competition except
for maybe a few judges number three the
Black Sox scandal
Shoeless Joe Jackson one of baseball’s
all-time greats any true baseball fan
knows the name Shoeless Joe Jackson but
the Black Sox scandal ends his career he
was the centerpiece of the 1919 Black
Sox scandal where players were accused
of throwing the World Series and banned
from baseball for life
of course shoeless joe was also a
central figure in the 1989 film Field of
Dreams gang thrown out of baseball was
like having part of me amputated what
most people don’t realize unfortunately
is that he most likely wasn’t involved
in the scandal at all and the available
evidence supports such a conclusion even
so the fact remains that America’s
favorite pastime was undoubtedly fixed
and a classic phrase was born say it
ain’t so Joe
Shoeless Joe Jackson died in 1951 and 63
years later is still banned from
baseball number to the MLB steroid
scandal
thank you
for nearly 40 years an unassuming man
named Roger Maris held the major league
baseball single-season homerun record
but in the mid-90s a new trend emerged
juicing some thought the ball itself was
juiced and that’s why more and more
people were coming to the ballpark but
home run numbers were just skyrocketing
however most fans didn’t fully realize
the extent of the steroid problem they
really were like cartoon figures like
supermen with these bulging biceps and
they just sucked us in Mark McGwire hits
70 homers in 98 and 3 years later Barry
Bonds set the existing quote record with
73
it was indeed an exciting time but when
the Mitchell report was released in 2007
the game was tarnished forever steroids
on don’t really help you that much
basically and what they give you can
take away somewhere else and I don’t
want that before we unveil our number
one pick here are a few honorable or in
this case dishonorable mentions noticing
was not Indonesia three or definitely
other there will be no kanai’s okay so
that the first fold of the survivor
leanings yeah I am deeply sorry for my
irresponsible and selfish behavior dusty
pokai party dishonest fall tired a spoon
glove licking vets can Dodds is sue
Schmidt filling us all to go out there
and to have in your mind you know you
want to take somebody’s career and you
got to look at it as you know people are
trying to feed their family however the
Spanish have a secret advantage 10 out
of the 12 of them are perfectly normal
putting it on in the hope of winning
gold number one the 2015 FIFA corruption
case we are here to announce the
unsealing of charges and the arrests of
individuals as part of our long-running
investigation into bribery and
corruption in the world of organized
soccer all hell broke loose in May of
2015 when US Attorney General Loretta
Lynch unveiled an intricate bribing
scheme involving FIFA executives and
corrupt officials they did this over and
over in fact FIFA VP Jack Warner even
tried to defend himself by citing a
satirical news article by the onion if
if I so bad why is it the USA wants to
keep if if I walk up as we’ve seen with
the 2002 Winter Olympics any event can
be bought and while this scandal may not
come as a big surprise to skeptics the
grand scale of the entire cover-up is
simply astounding we are truly living in
a world of magnificent bastards his
criminal activity financed an opulent
lifestyle that included a luxury
apartment in New York’s Trump Tower for
the use of his cat
Wow do you agree with our list I did I
was like okay well yeah I could see how
they wouldn’t want what do you think is
the most memorable sports scandal in my
mind there wasn’t inappropriate behavior
for more mind-blowing top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com and we will afford
following you here online
outside the game
well taping another team’s signals or
practice or you know that’s against the
rules why would they do that that also
seems small welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten sports scandals Sports
Illustrated says it’s uncovered al
Montes real birth certificate it shows
al Monte was born on April 7th 1987 for
this list we’re focusing on scandals in
the sports world that contain elements
of planning concealing or even
conspiracy there was only one club in
the Lincoln fitting the salary cap was
the Melbourne Storm and we’re excluding
random acts or behaviors that reflect
poorly on only one individual number ten
NFL concussions tells the whole story
when you hear the sound of it on this
punt return for years it was a badge of
honor for ex NFL players to boast about
the violent nature of their sport but
the narrative took a dark turn
once retired athletes began experiencing
symptoms of CTE or chronic traumatic
encephalopathy the football world has
been rocked this week by the sad death
of a former star in 2011 Dave Duerson
took his own life and requested that his
brain be studied for trauma and just one
year later Junior Seau also committed
suicide and was confirmed to be
suffering from CTE after a post-mortem
examination the NFL continues to adopt
new regulations along with the NHL and
their enforcer issue but off the field
problems including domestic violence as
evidenced by the Ray Rice case continue
to fuel the fire Junior Seau died from a
self-inflicted gunshot wound some
speculated that he did so to preserve
his brain a brain it turns out that was
damaged by the game he loved number nine
deflategate however there is an elephant
in the room where regardless of whether
you’re Pro Tom Brady or a steadfast
hater deflategate undoubtedly caused a
storm of selective outrage
2015 after this came out there were a
bunch of quarterbacks who said yeah we
all did this yes it was against the
rules but this is something we all did
it all began during the AFC Championship
game when officials discovered that
official game balls had been deflated
thus allowing Brady to get the upper
hand and this did not come out of thin
air pardon the pun this did not come out
of the NFL’s own theory about the balls
it came from the Colts it came from
perhaps other teams two weeks later the
New England Patriots won another Super
Bowl and shortly after the wells report
concluded it was quote probable that
Brady was complicit I don’t have really
any reaction to my our owner commented
on it yesterday deflategate came over
seven years after another New England
Patriots controversy known as Spygate
which means that somebody has some
explaining to do whomever that may be is
the Super Bowl tainted should there be
what do you guys think
number eight Jerry Sandusky and Penn
State these allegations are false I
didn’t do those things after 61 years
with Penn State you could say that Joe
Paterno had a bit of clout on campus we
drove two hours to get here just for
this just to say goodbye but amid a
disturbing sexual abuse scandal
involving former assistant coach Jerry
Sandusky Paterno’s legacy was forever
tarnished and he passed away just two
months after being fired if you know the
details then you already know just how
heartbreaking this story is for all
involved
Erin Fisher was the first to accuse
Sandusky of being a monster
in fact when Sandusky was convicted the
judge intentionally avoided an abstract
sentence to reinforce the idea that 30
to 60 years in jail had quote the
unmistakable impact of saying clearly
for the rest of your life a community
pillar who founded a charity to work
with at-risk kids a position prosecutors
now say Sandusky used as a hunting
ground for vulnerable victims number
seven the Melbourne Storm salary cap
reach
we had some rats in our ranks those were
the words of Melbourne Storm owner John
Hartigan after his team was involved in
the biggest scandal in Australian sports
history over the last few weeks has come
to light that the storm has engaged in a
long-term system of operating what might
conveniently be called
two sets of books the rugby squad had
one premierships both in 2007 and in
2009 and let’s just say that a few perks
were offered beyond the usual contract
negotiations this club is a great club
it’s a strong Club it’s a very proud
Club some players were given under the
table benefits that doubled their
official contracts and others received
30 large for home and entertainment
expenses the secret files outlining the
under-the-table deals were kept in a
separate room at the storms headquarters
well away from the players legitimate
contracts in the end melbourne continued
to win but only after the largest
sanctions in league history and a
stripping of their titles the penalty
will be the stripping of three minor
premierships and two premierships the
return of 1.1 million dollars in prize
money
a fine of five hundred thousand dollars
number six Tim Donaghy and the 2007 NBA
betting scandal his father had been a
respected ref and college basketball
Tim followed in his footsteps and went
even further making it to the NBA but
Tim said betting was more powerful than
all of that we all know somebody who
thinks the NBA is rigged and after
former basketball referee Tim Donaghy
was convicted of fixing games the
conspiracy theorists snickered with
laughter and did betting on the NBA give
you a higher high than betting on other
sports I think it gave me a higher high
because I was able to predict the
outcome of the games from 2005 to 2007
Donaghy bet thousands of dollars on
games he personally officiated and later
received kickbacks from low-level mafia
figures oh yeah he also worked the
infamous 2004 Indiana Detroit game that
resulted in one of the darkest moments
in league history also known as the
malice in the palace Donaghy was one
sketchy ref and after serving 11 months
in prison he naturally wrote a book
about his experiences making winning
picks is what excites you number five
Lance Armstrong doping allegations this
is a time gap but the man in yellow is
remain active with that usual
determination he was the Golden Boy of
cycling at least until he began throwing
everyone under his wheels there’s that
Indy stopping the lap dog
not in one of the most astonishing cases
of egocentric behavior the sports world
has ever seen Lance Armstrong furiously
denied using performance-enhancing drugs
after winning the Tour de France from
1999 to 2005
there’s 280 pages of medical records
constant interactions with doctors and
nurses and specialists never once
mission it was hard to hurt against
Armstrong a survivor of testicular
cancer and founder of the LIVESTRONG
foundation but the growing amount of
evidence became too much to ignore I
told her to go wherever she wants her
meaning me and I’ll answer the questions
directly honestly and candidly Armstrong
ultimately confessed to Oprah and even
that seemed like yet another performance
yes or no did you ever take banned
substances to enhance your cycling
performance yes number four the 2002
Winter Olympic bid scandal there are
allegations the city won the Winter
Games for the year 2002 by bribing some
members of the International Olympic
Committee every four years the Winter
Olympics showcased the greatest athletes
in the world and it’s also a time for
corrupt benefactors to admire their
illegal purchases and seemly things had
happened but we never had facts no one
had the courage to say well here’s to
the ledger here’s what happened and now
we do in 1995 Salt Lake City was
selected to host the 2002 Games and
three years later the Salt Lake City
organizing committee was suspiciously
protective of their financial documents
when pressed by reporters as an athlete
you’re training your whole life for that
one moment at the 11
but America’s Winter Olympics were mired
in scandal and deficits it was almost
like they didn’t want people to know
that numerous members of the
International Olympic Committee were
given political contributions tuition
money and millions upon millions of
dollars accusations at Salt Lake City
had bribed some IOC members with cash
gifts possibly even the services of
prostitutes so it could get the 2002
games you broke our heart Utah just like
that French judge who sabotaged the 2002
pairs figure skating competition except
for maybe a few judges number three the
Black Sox scandal
Shoeless Joe Jackson one of baseball’s
all-time greats any true baseball fan
knows the name Shoeless Joe Jackson but
the Black Sox scandal ends his career he
was the centerpiece of the 1919 Black
Sox scandal where players were accused
of throwing the World Series and banned
from baseball for life
of course shoeless joe was also a
central figure in the 1989 film Field of
Dreams gang thrown out of baseball was
like having part of me amputated what
most people don’t realize unfortunately
is that he most likely wasn’t involved
in the scandal at all and the available
evidence supports such a conclusion even
so the fact remains that America’s
favorite pastime was undoubtedly fixed
and a classic phrase was born say it
ain’t so Joe
Shoeless Joe Jackson died in 1951 and 63
years later is still banned from
baseball number to the MLB steroid
scandal
thank you
for nearly 40 years an unassuming man
named Roger Maris held the major league
baseball single-season homerun record
but in the mid-90s a new trend emerged
juicing some thought the ball itself was
juiced and that’s why more and more
people were coming to the ballpark but
home run numbers were just skyrocketing
however most fans didn’t fully realize
the extent of the steroid problem they
really were like cartoon figures like
supermen with these bulging biceps and
they just sucked us in Mark McGwire hits
70 homers in 98 and 3 years later Barry
Bonds set the existing quote record with
73
it was indeed an exciting time but when
the Mitchell report was released in 2007
the game was tarnished forever steroids
on don’t really help you that much
basically and what they give you can
take away somewhere else and I don’t
want that before we unveil our number
one pick here are a few honorable or in
this case dishonorable mentions noticing
was not Indonesia three or definitely
other there will be no kanai’s okay so
that the first fold of the survivor
leanings yeah I am deeply sorry for my
irresponsible and selfish behavior dusty
pokai party dishonest fall tired a spoon
glove licking vets can Dodds is sue
Schmidt filling us all to go out there
and to have in your mind you know you
want to take somebody’s career and you
got to look at it as you know people are
trying to feed their family however the
Spanish have a secret advantage 10 out
of the 12 of them are perfectly normal
putting it on in the hope of winning
gold number one the 2015 FIFA corruption
case we are here to announce the
unsealing of charges and the arrests of
individuals as part of our long-running
investigation into bribery and
corruption in the world of organized
soccer all hell broke loose in May of
2015 when US Attorney General Loretta
Lynch unveiled an intricate bribing
scheme involving FIFA executives and
corrupt officials they did this over and
over in fact FIFA VP Jack Warner even
tried to defend himself by citing a
satirical news article by the onion if
if I so bad why is it the USA wants to
keep if if I walk up as we’ve seen with
the 2002 Winter Olympics any event can
be bought and while this scandal may not
come as a big surprise to skeptics the
grand scale of the entire cover-up is
simply astounding we are truly living in
a world of magnificent bastards his
criminal activity financed an opulent
lifestyle that included a luxury
apartment in New York’s Trump Tower for
the use of his cat
Wow do you agree with our list I did I
was like okay well yeah I could see how
they wouldn’t want what do you think is
the most memorable sports scandal in my
mind there wasn’t inappropriate behavior
for more mind-blowing top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com and we will afford
following you here online
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