Most blatant/offensive show unsportsmanship

[Guest Smues]

Don Sutton calling the cops on John Canderlia who was arrested for driving drunk. This because Sutton lost his spot in the rotation to him.

Umm how is it un sportsman like to bust someone for driving drunk? Sure his motive wasn't the best, but if he was driving drunk he should have been arrested.

[Guest phoenixrising]

Speaking of the manager stories, the one with Lloyd McClendon cracks me up. After getting tossed by the ump, McClendon pulls out first base...and then takes it with him into the clubhouse.

 

I would love to know the reasoning behind that one..."THEY CANT PLAY THE GAME WITHOUT THE BASE MUAHAHAHAHAH!"

[Guest Human Fly]

Umm how is it un sportsman like to bust someone for driving drunk? Sure his motive wasn't the best, but if he was driving drunk he should have been arrested.

Yeah, but Sutton wasn't concerned with justice, or doing the right thing. He just wanted his spot in the rotation back and saw this as a way to do it.

[Guest jimmy no nose]

Heard of: My dad has told me a story several times about a Giants / Dodgers game he went to in the 60's [65, I think] at which something called "The Bat Incident" occured. Giants pitcher Juan Marichal is batting. I believe Drysdale was throwing for the Dodgers on this day. Anyway, the Dodger pitcher throws a pitch aimed at Marichal (head or arm, I'm not sure), and drills him. Marichal's reaction?

 

He turns around and clubs the Dodger catcher over the head with his bat. Naturally, a bench clearing brawl erupts, and Marichal is eventually suspended.

 

And that, boys and girls, is part of the reason why Dodgers/Giants is the best rivalry in the history of American sports. (Screw your Yankees/BoSox...if you're not trying to physically maim the other side, you just ain't tryin hard enough... )

Marichal always gets the bad end of this, in my view he didn't do much wrong. What had happened was Marichal was brushing back a few players, intentional or not I'm not sure. So the Dodgers want to get him back, but the pitcher--Sandy Koufax, not Drysdale--didn't want to be drilling Juan Marichal. So the catcher takes it into his own hands and each time a pitch comes in he throws it back attempting to hit or brush Marichal in the from only a few feet away. After two or three throws coming in very close to his head Marichal asks him to stop, the catcher takes off his mask and it appears that he is about to hit him, Marichal hits him with the bat. If Marichal wanted to he would have knocked him out with the first shot. Even if he couldn't he still had a bat in his hands afterwards and didnt do anything. All he did was try to defend himself, I'm not sure if it wasnt the best thing to do. To quote Roseboro on what he was thinking going into it, "I expected Marichal to attack me in some way. If he had said anything to me, I had studied karate, and I was ready to annihilate him."

[Guest Nevermortal]

What about the Hockey player who took one big fucking shot at the other guy's head with a stick on the ice? It was a few years back. That was one hell of a shot.

[Guest MaxPower27]

Marty McSorley hitting Donald Brashear

[Guest alfdogg]

Laettner only got picked to the Dream Team because he went to Duke.  Shaq, Zo, and Calbert Cheaney were all far better collegiate players.

[McEnroe]You CANNOT be serious.[/McEnroe]

 

Laettner is probably one of the ten best collegiate players of all time. He put up all the impressive stats the other guys did (even more impressive considering Duke was loaded for most of the time he was there, so he was never the sole focus of the offence), and made four Final Fours and won two rings.

 

Hate him if you must, but don't say he wasn't a legendary college player.

I think you took what I said the wrong way. By no means did I say that he wasn't any good in college, I just said that those three other players should have been considered ahead of him. I guess Shaq and Mourning probably wouldn't have fit in due to already having Ewing and Robinson, but Cheaney is to this day the Big Ten's all-time scoring leader, and I think should have been chosen rather than Laettner. But I wasn't trashing his credibility at Duke by any means.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Umm how is it un sportsman like to bust someone for driving drunk? Sure his motive wasn't the best, but if he was driving drunk he should have been arrested.

Yeah, but Sutton wasn't concerned with justice, or doing the right thing. He just wanted his spot in the rotation back and saw this as a way to do it.

Exactly. Sutton didn't care about Candeleria driving drunk, he wanted his spot in the rotation.

[Guest Harry Hood]

I saw a clip on kazaa of a guy in I think an argentinan league one-punching a ref. knocked him clean out and almost killed him. twas trey brutal

[Guest Redhawk]

I saw a tape of a college or high school wrestler who head-butted the referee after the match, knocking the guy smooth out.

 

Oh, and all of those parents who go insane on Little League coaches, refs, and other parents arethe worst.

[Guest Human Fly]

What about Dennis Rodman kicking a photographer in the groin at courtside?

 

Why Dennis doesn't have his own talk show is a mystery to me. It would be hilarious to see the stuff he came up with.

[Guest HungryJack]

Bullshit. Sapp had every right to take that shot...if a lineman CAN throw a block, he WILL throw a block, it's only because the dude got hurt, and it's Warren Sapp, that everyone got all worked up.

 

I wish EVERYONE played as hard as Warren Sapp did.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Warren Sapp only plays hard about 10 games a year, that's where he gets is 10 sacks. The other 6 he does nothing. All D-Linemen are like that.

[Guest Mindless_Aggression]

On the Rodman thing, it certainly wasn't right, but I can understand his situation to a point. You're in the heat of a game and you get tripped by photographer. Obviously unintentional but I could see a lot of people just doing that on reaction, it's quasi embarassing and he's trying to contribute during a game. Not right, but understandable, at least to me.

 

I personally always wanna slap Mutumbo when he waves his finger after getting a block btw. YEs, you're 7'2 and blocked a shot, good for you, lets see you do something on offense that isn't horrible now.

[Guest BobbyWhioux]

Heard of:  My dad has told me a story several times about a Giants / Dodgers game he went to in the 60's [65, I think] at which something called "The Bat Incident" occured.  Giants pitcher Juan Marichal is batting.  I believe Drysdale was throwing for the Dodgers on this day.  Anyway, the Dodger pitcher throws a pitch aimed at Marichal (head or arm, I'm not sure), and drills him.  Marichal's reaction?

 

He turns around and clubs the Dodger catcher over the head with his bat.   Naturally, a bench clearing brawl erupts, and Marichal is eventually suspended.

 

And that, boys and girls, is part of the reason why Dodgers/Giants is the best rivalry in the history of American sports.  (Screw your Yankees/BoSox...if you're not trying to physically maim the other side, you just ain't tryin hard enough... )

 

Marichal always gets the bad end of this, in my view he didn't do much wrong. What had happened was Marichal was brushing back a few players, intentional or not I'm not sure. So the Dodgers want to get him back, but the pitcher--Sandy Koufax, not Drysdale--didn't want to be drilling Juan Marichal. So the catcher takes it into his own hands and each time a pitch comes in he throws it back attempting to hit or brush Marichal in the from only a few feet away. After two or three throws coming in very close to his head Marichal asks him to stop, the catcher takes off his mask and it appears that he is about to hit him, Marichal hits him with the bat. If Marichal wanted to he would have knocked him out with the first shot. Even if he couldn't he still had a bat in his hands afterwards and didnt do anything. All he did was try to defend himself, I'm not sure if it wasnt the best thing to do. To quote Roseboro on what he was thinking going into it, "I expected Marichal to attack me in some way. If he had said anything to me, I had studied karate, and I was ready to annihilate him."

Shit, you're right, I totally misremembered that incident. Totally forgot about Roseboro buzzing Marichal.

 

Talked to my dad about that incident again, and got reminded of the buzzing.

 

Marichal was throwing hard inside all day, and so was Koufax*. People threw hard inside more back then in general, and since it was A) Giants v. Dodgers [a rivalry only slightly less intense than Israeli settlers in the Gaza strip v. Displaced Palestinans] and B) a close pennant race, there was hella more of it.

 

And so Roseboro steps to the side after receiving the pitches so that when he throws it back to the mound it buzzes right by Marichal's ear. After Roseboro does this several times Marichal gets annoyed [wouldn't you?] and starts brandishing his bat. Roseboro whips off his mask and starts swinging it around, and Marichal pops him one with the bat. And everybody comes off of both benches.

 

[*Though my dad still seems to think it was Drysdale. Eh. Whatever.]

[Guest Redhawk]

My dad always tells me about the time Raiders safety Jack Tatum hit Patriots receiver Darryl Stingley, a play that left Stingley paralyzed from the chest down. I've never seen the play, but given Tatum and those whole Raiders-era teams had a reputation for dirty play, a lot of people say it was a dirty hit. Has anyone seen it? From what my dad says, it was kind of like the Warren Sapp-Chad Clifton hit; legal but totally unneccessary.

[Guest nl5xsk1]

What about the Hockey player who took one big fucking shot at the other guy's head with a stick on the ice? It was a few years back. That was one hell of a shot.

There was a pretty heated thread about this just a few weeks ago, after Hasek went all beserker on a player in a Czech league game ... McSorley has been SO unfairly crucified on this, it's not even funny. There are worse infractions every week of the season, but b/c of the way that Brashear fell he got a concussion and so now McSorley's name has been besmirched.

 

My view on the Sapp hit that people have been talking about: It was fine, and within the rules of the game. If, for some reason that guy makes a tackle or causes a turnover, people would be lambasting Sapp for not making a block that he could have or should have. Yes, it sucks that the guy got hurt, but it's is own fault for letting his guard down. You're taught to play til the whistle blows since you're like 8 years old.

 

My view on the Tatum hit: there's hits every bit as vicious or unnecessary in every game of the season now. Yes, it was headhunting, but no worse than the ones you see every week now on ESPN highlights.

[Guest Ripper]

When the Knicks swept the Sixers one year in the playoffs, they got the brooms out...literally. Players had brooms and were sweeping the floor while the Sixers were still out there, went over the the sixer bench area after the game and swept around there. It was ridiculous. Crap like that, the fans bringing brooms, fine. But when PLAYERS start actually sweeping the court, that is disrespectful.

 

The Knicks went on to be swept by the Pistons in the second round. Charles Barkly says that Isaih Thomas called him that night and told him that they would get the Knicks back for that.

[Guest Still Fly]

For me, the most blantant showing of unsportmanslike conduct is the whole Lakers/Kings saga from both sides. Even though im a Lakers fan and I hate Kings sometimes it goes a little too far. I mean the burning of the Lakers jersey in 2000, the ball incident, Shaq calling out Bibby and calling the Kings the Queens, Fox and Chistie incident, I mean it just goes on and on. But i admit this is the best sports fued in years.

 

About Sapp. Sapp only plays hard when he feels like it. If he was any type of leader the Bucs would have won the Super Bowl at least twice. Sapp is probably the biggest asshole in sports since Deion Sanders. But the hit on Clifton was sweet.

[Guest Human Fly]

When the Knicks swept the Sixers one year in the playoffs, they got the brooms out...literally. Players had brooms and were sweeping the floor while the Sixers were still out there, went over the the sixer bench area after the game and swept around there. It was ridiculous. Crap like that, the fans bringing brooms, fine. But when PLAYERS start actually sweeping the court, that is disrespectful.

Didn't the Nets do the same thing this year after sweeping the Celtics? I thought I read something about how Mutombo looked ridiculous with a broom.

[Guest Anorak]

Rio De Janeiro, 1989.

 

Trailing 1-0 to Brazil in a crucial world cup qualifying game the players of Chile abandon the game and carry off their bleeding goalkeeper on a stretcher claiming he was hit in the face with a firecracker. One FIFA investigation later Chile are banned from the 1994 world cup and Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas is given a life ban.

 

It turned out that the Chile team had deliberately planned to abandon the game they were losing by having Rojas feign injury with the aid of a blood capsule.

[Guest ant_7000]

When Jordan Boomed on Mutombo and then MJ wag his finger in his face. He got a Technical for it, but it was classic.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Mutombo was asking for hit with his bullshit finger waving.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

Well when I was playing football my junior year in HS one of our offensive linemen went down late in the game and no one on the team knew why for sure why. We were playing a ghetto school (sorry that's un-PC. Make it an "economically disadvantaged" school) and were beating them by like 30 points so we figured it was a cheap shot, but no one saw anything, since we only saw him down after the play was over (he was trailing the play, a sweep to the opposite side of the field).

 

The next morning (Saturday) we all show up for game films and on the play our guy goes down our coach says something to the effect of, "Watch what happens!" We keep an eye on the OL and saw that the guy he had been manhandling all game apparently got tired of it, reared back, and kicked him square in the balls. We were all wearing protection of course, but he kicked him from underneath, not right on the cup, so it basically didn't offer any protection. Of course, ref didn't see anything and no penalty was called.

 

Next season we all came back and the dude who had done it was playing OL and DL. To put it mildly, he didn't have a fun game.

[Guest MentallyNormal]

That dad that told his kid to stick a sharp blade in his football helmet to cut up other players.

I remember seeing it on tv somewhere I forget where though.

 

Also when Rick Fox ambushed Doug Christie.

[Guest Tyler McClelland]

If we're counting fans, how could one count out the Philly fans cheering when Michael Irvin was almost paralyzed for life?

[Guest Redhawk]

How about Brett Favre lying down and giving Michael Strahan his record-breaking sack in the last game of the 2001 season?

 

Ricky Davis missing a lay-up on the other team's basket in order to get his 10th rebound and a triple-double?

 

Anthony Bowie getting rebound #10 and calling timeout with 4 seconds left in a 20-point blowout so he could get his 10th assists and a triple-double.

 

Kobe Bryant shooting every time down the floor, trying to keep his 40-point game streak going?

 

UConn and their opponent allowing Nykesha Sales to hit an uncontested lay-up and break the UConn scoring record, even though Sales was wearing a cast on her leg?

 

Chan Ho Park serving Cal Ripken a nice fat little BP-style fastball in Cal's last All-Star Game?

[Guest Tyler McClelland]

While I agree with the rest in principle...

 

UConn and their opponent allowing Nykesha Sales to hit an uncontested lay-up and break the UConn scoring record, even though Sales was wearing a cast on her leg?

 

I don't agree with that one. Sales came one basket short of breaking the record, instead breaking her leg. The basket did nothing in the game; UConn allowed their opponent to score a basket to even the game and make the points simply go towards her record. If anything, it was a show of GOOD sportsmanship.

 

Also, the Ripken thing, especially in an exhibition game, wasn't really bad sportsmanship. Perhaps cheesy, but it wasn't bad sportsmanship. It wasn't as if there were any records or anything but Ripken's legacy at stake, so it wasn't exactly a show of bad sportsmanship.

[Guest Redhawk]

Sales came one basket short of breaking the record, instead breaking her leg. The basket did nothing in the game; UConn allowed their opponent to score a basket to even the game and make the points simply go towards her record. If anything, it was a show of GOOD sportsmanship.

But what about the girl who had the record before? I'm sure she was NOT pleased with that. While it's unfortunate that Sales hurt her knee while she was only one point shy, that's tough shit. Of course she would have broken the record eventually if she was healthy, since I think they had two or three games left, but the fact is she wouldn't have played at all if the record WASN'T at stake. And imagine what kind of message that sends about how important individual stats are.

 

Imagine it's 15 years in the future, and Kerry Wood gets hurt in his last season, falling one strikeout short of breaking Nolan Ryan's record. Now if this was an injury that Kerry couldn't play on but could still throw the ball (let's say, oh, a broken ring finger). Should they put him on the mound for one batter, and have that batter intentionally miss three pitches just for the record?

 

You're right, it is more cheesy than anything. But I don't think it's very sportsmanlike. Seeing that "sport" is competition, not charity.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

You know, if someone on the other team would've ran up and stuffed the ball right in her face as she was going up to lay it in, I might actually give a shit about women's basketball. Or at least if she had missed..or broken her other leg.