Above, from left to right, Mike Tyson (Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com), Michael Vick (Jerry Zitterman / Shutterstock.com) and Pete Rose (stocklight / Shutterstock.com) What is about sports stars and getting arrested all the time? You’d think earning millions might make you a little more chilled. […]
In a world where tough athletes are revered, distinctions often become blurred when it comes to how such professional performers behave themselves outside the game. Atypically, two of the ‘Hard Men’ of the soccer field, Roy Keane and Robbie Savage, were always getting in trouble […]
Above image by Jeffrey Beall Aaron Hernandez is currently under arraignment at the Bristol County jail in Massachusetts on various charges involving first-degree murder, gun-possession and ties to gangs. A number of reports in the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post show serious legal problems […]
Gary Madine was a striker for the English Championship Division soccer team Sheffield Wednesday, who punched two fans in two separate nightclub attacks and was consequently jailed for 18 months. Madine, who already had a previous conviction for knocking a man out in a Carlisle […]
Plaxico Burress is one of the greatest wide-receivers to have ever played the game of American football. Indeed, had he not made a number of criminal mistakes during his long, distinguished professional career, as he himself acknowledges, he would still not be playing the game […]
Top image: Aspen Photo / Shutterstock.com Tall, green-eyed and handsome, ‘The Latino Adonis’ was born in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood, a lively Dominican enclave with a tradition for producing lively athletes and musicians. Already a strapping, bulked-up 6’2″ and 220lbs by the age of […]
In what may be the single most told cautionary contemporary tale of our times, Tiger Woods’ story is a cliché within a conundrum. The pseudo-All-American boy’s rise and precipitous fall may be both the American Dream and the Yankee Nightmare. The single most successful golfer […]
