For many, a drug addiction, cheating on your wife or a misdemeanor usually is known to very few people and not such a hard thing to cope with. But when you get high payed sports stars replication this behaviour, it usually ends in turmoil. The Morrison effect counts down it's top 10 scandalous high profile figures of the modern era.
Jumping in at
# 5 is John 'Wild Thing' Daly. John is known for his long drives, poor health and somewhat aggressive behavior at times. John Daly's alcoholic problems are such to an extent of which an alcoholic drink consisting of Sweet
t tea-flavored vodka and lemonade is often referred to as a John Daly. He claims to have lost between US$50 and $60 million over the past 15 years. This includes losing $1.5 million in October 2005, after winning half that amount at the WGC-American Express tournament, most of it lost on $5,000 Los Vegas slot machines. He has made most of this money back through endorsements and public appearances, notably with poker machine company aristocrat. He has also been known to smoke a pack of cigarettes and 1.25L of diet coke everyday, including those of which he is on a golf course.
Putting his boot into
#4 is Wayne Carey. Wayne was a champion on the Field and was a
huge role model for most coming up through grassroots AFL during his time. A strong marker of the footy and a natural instinct to find the middle of the goals, he was a phenom. In March 2002 however, Carey was caught up in a Extra martial affair with the clubs Vice Captain (Anthony Stevens) wife. At that point Carey had lost faith from the nation, and the football club of which he became a legend at. He stood down and
headed to the US to avoid media scrutiny. Carey had a huge history of getting in trouble with the law and still does at times.
Hitting in at
#3 is A-Rod. A-Rod as he is known for short is a champion Baseball players who plays for the New York Yankee's. In 2003 he failed a steroid test and information was linked to the public (with 103 other names). In an interview he admitted using drugs only during the 2001 to 2003, none of which were with the Yankee's, but with the Rangers.
Swinging in at
#2 is none other than Tiger Woods. What a month this guy has had. He gets 3.3m for winning the Australian Masters, and gets involved into a mystery car rash outside of his Florida mansion. What i find funny about this whole thing is not only the fact that about 10 people have come out and claimed that they have had an affair with the worlds greatest golfers, that the wife chased him down the street with a golf club. Sure, he probably has an abundance of clubs, but surely there would be something better to chase him with. Maybe the wife was looking for sponsorship off Nike or some other kind of club manufacturer. In all honesty i feel sorry for him. Sure cheating
against a women is against everything i worship, but i think he is unfairly being targeted because of his wealth. Not only will large sums come from his bank account which would be somewhere in the proximity of $US780, he could lose sponsorship of up too $US130 per year. What hasn't made the situation any better is the capitulation of his mothers health. Obviously this is one thing that has totally captivated the world just simply because of how great his swing is on the golf course. Perhaps swinging off the golf course is one thing he should look to avoid.
Okay here is
#1, the one you have been waiting for.
#1 belongs to the one and only OJ Simpson. The O. J. Simpson murder case has been described as the most publicized criminal trial in American history, in which O. J. Simpson, a former American football star and actor, was brought to trial for the 1994 murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was acquitted in 1995after a lengthy trial—the longest jury trial in California history. At 10 a.m. on October 3, 1995, after only four hours of deliberation the previous day, the jury returned
d a verdict of not guilty. DNA showed that blood found at the scene of Brown's murder was O.J. Simpson's. The odds it could have come from anyone but Simpson were reported, incorrectly, to be about one in 170 million. Although these odds weren't terribly good for OJ, but the doubt was put in as it could have been OJ's son, Jason who in fact committed the crime. OJ since then was involved in a Los Vegas Robbery where he took sports memorabilia. He was jailed 2 days later at a set price of $125,000. Simpson had three other run-ins with the law: a dispute over back taxes, a December 2000 road rage incident, and a satellite television piracy case.The State of California claims Simpson owes $1.44 million in past due taxes. A tax lien was filed in his case on September 1, 1999. In 2000, Simpson was charged with battery and auto burglary after it was alleged that he pulled the glasses off another motorist during a traffic dispute. He was put on trial
and acquitted on both charges in 2001. In March 2004, satellite television network DirecTV, Inc. accused Simpson in a Miami federal court of using illegal electronic devices to pirate its broadcast signals. The company later won a US$25,000 judgement, and Simpson was ordered to pay US$33,678 in attorney's fees and costs.
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