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)
• George O'Leary resume fabrication. This forced him to resign from head coach at Notre Dame.
• 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)
• Jim Harrick resigned as head coach at the University of Georgia for giving his players A's in certain classes and having their schoolwork done by someone.
• Fresno Case scandal (2004)
• Robert Hoyzer - match fixing in German football (2004; revealed in 2005)
• 2005 Minnesota Vikings boat cruise scandal (2005)
• Brazilian football match-fixing scandal (2005)
• Operation Slapshot - investigation into a gambling ring allegedly operated by National Hockey League assistant coach Rick Tocchet (2006)
• Colorado Recruiting Scandal
• 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.
• Shane Warne, an Australian cricketer was reported having a one-night stand with a number of British women.