List of sporting scandals

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This is a list of major sporting scandals:

• Black Sox scandal (1919)
• Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker's game fixing (1926)
• Pete Rose gambling on baseball - Dowd Report (1989)
• Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays banned from baseball for being doormen in an Atlantic City Casino (1970s)
• Drug abuse in sports - Ben Johnson (1988); BALCO (2004-05); Game of Shadows, a 2006 book that alleges extensive use of performance-enhancing drugs by Barry Bonds
• Southern Methodist University boosters giving football players thousands of dollars from a "slush fund", which along with prior NCAA violations, led the NCAA to level the "death penalty" on the school's football team.
• College basketball point shaving scandals (many times, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, with more recent scandals in 1978, 1984, and 1994)
• Chris Webber being paid while a basketball player at the University of Michigan. College players are not allowed to be paid under NCAA rules.
• Olympic Games scandals:
  • 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal
  • IOC bribery - see 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal
  • Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan incident (1994)
• Hansiegate scandal in 2000 involving former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje with three other teammates for involving in match fixing.
• Another cricket scandal in 1994 involving Australia's Mark Waugh and Shane Warne which came to light 4 years later.
• George O'Leary resume fabrication (2001). This forced him to resign as head American football coach at Notre Dame.
• Canterbury Bulldogs (2002) - Australian rugby league team were stripped 37 competition points for extensive salary cap breaches, going from 1st place to last place on the ladder as a result.
• Jim Harrick resigned as head coach at the University of Georgia in 2002 for giving his players A's in certain classes and having their schoolwork done by someone.
• Angela's Motorsports scandal (2003)
• Kamp Staaldraad - controversial training camp for the Springboks (South Africa's national rugby union team) before the 2003 Rugby World Cup
• Baylor University basketball scandal (2003) - player Patrick Dennehy was murdered by teammate Carlton Dotson. Later, coach Dave Bliss instructed his players to lie to NCAA investigators that Dennehy dealt drugs. In the wake of these events, numerous violations of NCAA rules were discovered.
• Fresno Case scandal (2004) - an attempt to rig a vote to prevent the Catalan rink hockey team from being accepted into international competition
• Bundesliga scandal of 2005 - a match fixing scandal in German football centering on disgraced referee Robert Hoyzer
• 2005 Minnesota Vikings boat cruise scandal (2005) - a pleasure cruise featuring sexual shenanigans by several members of the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL
• Brazilian football match-fixing scandal (2005) - another match fixing scandal involving referees, this time in Brazil
• Operation Slapshot - investigation into a gambling ring allegedly operated by National Hockey League assistant coach Rick Tocchet (2006)
• 2006 Serie A scandal - a match fixing scandal in Italian football involving three of the country's four qualifiers to the 2006-07 UEFA Champions League
• Colorado Recruiting Scandal
• Shane Warne, an Australian cricketer, was reported having a one-night stand with a number of British women.
• 2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal - a stripper hired by several team members for an informal team party accused three players of rape
• June 19, 2006 - NASCAR team owner Gene Haas was arrested for personal and business tax evasion.
• Operación Puerto (2006) - a Spanish investigation into a doping scheme allegedly involving many top cyclists, including several potential contenders in the 2006 Tour de France
• 2006 rugby union handbag controversy - initially an incident in which one New Zealand rugby player struck a fellow player with a woman's handbag; became more controversial when Australia's Seven Network aired a commercial parodying the incident, in which images of the All Blacks performing their pre-match haka were digitally altered to show the players carrying handbags.
• 2006 Kapa O Pango controversy - Australian coach John Connolly suggests that the All Blacks' Kapo O Pango haka should be banned, stating that the throat slitting gesture at the end is a bad example to young kids. The haka was also reviewed earlier in the year, creating more controversy.
• Diego Maradona - Arrived at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and played two games (scoring one goal) before being sent home after failing a drug test for ephedrine doping.
• 2007 NASCAR Gatorade Duel Scandal
• Johann Mühlegg - Salt Lake City scandal - finished first in the 50 km classical race in Cross-country skiing in the Winter Olympic Games on February 23, 2002, but was disqualified from that race and was expelled from the Games the next day, after testing positive for darbepoetin.