I don't think I can turn this thread into a poll, but I will try...
now that 2015 is done-
let's vote on the Sports IDI0T of the Year....you can include anyone already mentioned in this thread or find someone new...
But it has to be someone in sports - no listing politicians, or notable public figures who pretend to be one race or sex while they are actually another, and no listing of stupid crooks unless they are sports figures...
Here's a summary of the notables from this thread plus a few others thrown in...
-Aldon Smith - 49ers, got arrested for DUI/Hit & Run on 1st day of training camp.
-Norwood Teague - Univ. of Minnesota AD who had everything going for him then threw it all away by trying to use his power & position to get a little nookie on the side. Maybe the guy who hired this bozo should also be included since teague was found to have done the exact same thing where he worked before.
-Sheldon Richardson - NY Jets, arrested going 143mph on drugs & had a kid in his car.
-Justin Moss, MAC Player of the Year arrested for stealing from other students' dorm rooms.
-IKEMEFUNA ENEMKPALI - another NY Jets player punched his own QB and put him on the disabled list
-Darius Paul - now we're getting close to home, Paul booted for his umpteenth violation with drugs & booze.
-BU's Warren Jones was nominated as well for his poor judgement that led to dismissal.
-Tom Brady & Roger Goodell for the laughable Deflate-gate mess.
-Winona State head coach forced out for making drunken sexual advanced towards one of his players.
-USC FB Coach Steve Sarkisian - multiple efforts to impersonate
Foster Brooks.
-Chris Carter for his advice to NFL rookies on having a posse fall guy.
-Ahmad Brooks - but then this kind of drunken advances are getting pretty common.
-Minnesota underling Mike Ellis caught doing the same thing as Teague.
-Oklahoma State's Travis Ford kicked out of his kid's high school game for berating refs from the stands.
...now a few more I threw in...
-There was Manny Pacquiao's decision to fight while injured and not bother to tell anyone - kind of a little dishonest considering a few hundred million bucks were being wagered.
-Ronda Rousey (and her entourage) spent the entire year hyping & boasting how unbeatable she was then she went down pretty easy in Round 2 in November. I guess there are people who actually consider this stuff "sports" so I included it - but any time a heavy favorite like Rousey or Pacquiao go down easy- it's gotta raise real suspicions just who might have been making the really big bucks on the betting? But then, like I said, if anyone really thinks this qualifies as real "sports" - then maybe I should include pro wrestlers like Rowdy Roddy Piper & all the other pro wrestlers who killed themselves with drugs & abuse.
And just about any year that he attempts a comeback and flops - we could re-list Keith Olbermann, but I won't.
-the list of people caught cheating in college basketball this year includes Larry Brown, Jim Boeheim, and a few others, but hey- this is everyday news any more.
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but this is the one I would vote for....
the family- specifically the mother - of the woman making accusations towards Patrick Kane - pulls the most bone-headed, stupid, and dishonest ruse about her daughter's rape claims, then blames it all on the investigators & prosecutors, dupes her really simple-minded and gullible lawyer to get in on it and generates the most
ridiculous circus of press conferences I can ever recall seeing.
Even if there were any believable shred of evidence to support the publicity-seeking daughter's claims against Kane, then this stupid family & lawyer just made complete buffoons of themselves and proved to the world what extent they'd go to just to make a circus out of the evidence for whatever gain they might be able to achieve.
Thankfully the prosecutor dropped the whole thing.
...as a corollary I would also list all the stupid media and hateful bigots who demanded Kane be kicked out of the NHL & suspended based only on their pre-conceived ideas that if the accuser said it, then it must be true.
