The
1919 world series. The
worst scandal in baseball history.
The series was lost by a heavily favored Chicago White Sox
team. Accusations came out against eight of the players on
that team who had possibly thrown the series for money from
gamblers. The players were convicted on circumstancial evidence
and the new baseball commissioner, Kenisaw Mountain Landis,
gave them all lifetime suspensions from baseball. One of these
players was Shoeless Joe Jackson. One of the greatest players
in the history of baseball.
September 23, 2000Adelaide
police have arrested a 22-year-old Olympic athlete from Uganda
sought in connection with the sexual assault of a 17-year-old
woman. New South Wales police said Saturday that their crime
investigators will fly to the South Australian state capital
1,100 kilometres southwest of Sydney to interview the man.
The Australian Associated Press said Ugandan team officials
had identified the man as swimmer Joe Atuhaire, and that they
had spoken to him by phone on Friday. Atuhaire finished third
in his three-man heat of the 100-metre breaststroke last Saturday
and failed to qualify for the final.
Aug. 1995: Frank Duncan,
a former player for the San Diego Chargers (football), is
sentenced to eight years in prison for beating his girlfriend
in January 1995. He was acquitted of additional charges of
kidnapping. In the attack, Duncan reportedly threatened to
"do to her what O.J. did to Nicole."
July 1995: Star Minnesota
Vikings (football) quarterback Warren Moon, by reputation
one of the most upstanding players in the NFL, is arrested
in SUBURBAN Houston and charged with misdemeanor assault after
he slapped his wife, choking her "nearly to the point
of unconsciousness" during an argument. MOON IS LATER
ACQUITTED AFTER HIS WIFE REFUSES TO TESTIFY. A few months
previously, Moon had been charged with sexual assault by a
Vikings cheerleader in a case that was settled out of court
Jan. 1995: Seton Hall University
decides not to offer a basketball scholarship to star high
school player Richie Parker after he pleads guilty to felony
first-degree sexual abuse. Parker receives five years' probation
for the offense. The school chancellor overrules Seton Hall
coach George Blaney, who says that "I think it's despicable
what he [Parker] has had to go through...he really has gone
through an awful lot." There was no coverage as to what
the coach thought Parker's victim had gone thou gh
Sept. 1994: Minnesota Timberwolves
(basketball) guard Isaiah Rider is convicted of the assault
of a woman in a March 1994 incident at a shopping mall. He
is sentenced to two years probation and 35 hours of community
service and is ordered to comple te an "anger-violence
counselling program."
June 1994: Hall of Fame football
player, former sports telecaster and celebrity O.J. Simpson
is charged with murdering his ex-wife and her friend. The
case draws unprecedented national media attention. Reports
emerge that Simpson has a history of repeated attacks against
the woman as well as a previous wife.
March
1994: Doug Dennison, former Dallas Cowboys (football)
running back, is sentenced to six months in jail in Phoenix
for making sexual advances toward two teenage girls
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