History OvershadowedByControversy / Sports

* Dale Earnhardt (Sr.) is often considered one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time, becoming the second driver to ever win seven Winston Cup Championships[[note]]Today just the NASCAR Cup Series[[/note]] and holding 76 wins to his name, but most people only know him for his death in the 2001 Daytona 500.

* The 1980's rendition of the United States Football League is mostly remembered for two things: being the first American football league to play in the spring instead of the fall and the fact that one of the team owners, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, pushed the league to schedule its 1986 season in direct competition with the NFL, in the belief that it would force a merger between the two leagues. This effort failed, bankrupting the USFL and driving it into obscurity.[[note]]Well, mostly failed. The USFL filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL... ''and won''. However, the same jury also ruled that the USFL's financial problems were because of their own actions (chief among them being the suicidal idea of running head to head with the most profitable sports league in the world, though they were having serious financial problems even before the move to the fall) and awarded them only $1, which was then tripled to $3 under anti-trust laws, and finally upped to $3.76 thanks to interest accrued while the decision was being appealed. As of 2022 that check for $3.76 has not been cashed.[[/note]]

** The 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal saw Nadia Comăneci earn the first perfect ten in gymnastics. However, in Canada at least, they are best known for the city of Montreal racking up an astronomical level of debt in order to pay for the staging of the games (the ''720 percent'' cost overrun for the games remains the highest in IOC history) and the (much-delayed) construction of the venues. A notable target is Olympic Stadium, which was not completed until long after the games were held, and which has been plagued with issues ever since. Its derisive nickname of "The Big Owe" is not far off the mark; its cost would not be fully paid off until 2006, by which time both of its post-Olympic tenants, the [[UsefulNotes/CanadianFootballLeague CFL's]] Montreal Alouettes and [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams MLB's Montreal Expos]], had departed for pastures new.[[note]]Between 1976 and 2006, the Alouettes folded and revived ''twice''. They eventually moved to the team's original home, a considerably older and smaller but far more centrally located stadium. As for the Expos, they moved south of the border to Washington, DC.[[/note]] Costs aside, the Montreal Olympics were also known for a controversial ban of the Taiwanese team due to pressure from mainland China and a 29-country boycott owing to the IOC's refusal to ban the New Zealand team thanks to the New Zealand rugby team touring apartheid South Africa earlier that year[[note]]They weren't banned because rugby wasn't a Olympic sport and the IOC had no jurisdiction[[/note]]. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Team Canada failed to win a single gold medal on home turf.]]

** Even after the name change to the Commanders, the team remains embroiled in controversy, thanks to a workplace culture so toxic that the ''United States Congress'' felt the need to step in and investigate (as of this writing, owner Dan Snyder is refusing to testify before the committee), and accusations that he's been cooking the books and not giving the other 31 owners their fair shares[[note]]The NFL operates under a "shared revenue" system, where most of the money taken in by the 32 teams is collected by the league, then redistributed equally among the clubs. This prevents the teams in the much more lucrative markets (New York, Los Angeles, California's Bay Area, etc...) from gaining an advantage over the Buffaloes and Jacksonvilles of the league. At least in theory.[[/note]]. The NFL Commissioner can, at his own discretion, call for the other 31 team owners alongside Snyder to vote on whether or not they should just throw him out of the league, and quite a few people are calling for this to happen. Snyder eventually hired the Bank of America to help sell the newly-christened Washington Commanders (either partially or completely) on November 2, 2022, which would hopefully lead to an end of his long, tumultuous tenure.
* The United States Football League is mostly remembered for the fact that one of the team owners, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, pushed the league to schedule its 1986 season in direct competition with the NFL, in the belief that it would force a merger between the two leagues. This effort failed, bankrupting the USFL and driving it into obscurity.[[note]]Well, mostly failed. The USFL filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL... ''and won''. However, the same jury also ruled that the USFL's financial problems were because of their own actions (chief among them being the suicidal idea of running head to head with the most profitable sports league in the world, though they were having serious financial problems even before the move to the fall) and awarded them only $1, which was then tripled to $3 under anti-trust laws, and finally upped to $3.76 thanks to interest accrued while the decision was being appealed. As of 2022 that check for $3.76 has not been cashed.[[/note]]
* The Houston Astros as a whole got hit with this when it was discovered that during the 2017 season in which they won the World Series they had engaged in a sophisticated cheating system by which an Astros staffer would watch the live video feed in the "replay room", decipher the catcher's signs, and then players would relay to the batter via banging on a trash can what pitch was coming. The scheme was revealed by former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers, who then cooperated in the investigation. The fallout cost Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow and Manager A.J. Hinch their jobs (as well as both being suspended from the MLB for a year), and also led to resignations by Boston Red Sox Manager Alex Cora (who was the Astros bench coach in 2017) and New York Mets Manager Carlos Beltrán (a former Astros outfielder who was named as the "ringleader" by MLB's investigation). The Astros also were fined $5 million dollars and stripped of their 2020 and 2021 first-round picks in the MLB Draft.

* Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka went from a long-time respected assistant coach (including an NBA Finals winner in 2014 with the San Antonio Spurs) and first-time head coach that led the Boston Celtics to their first NBA Finals appearance since 2010 to someone that's considered a horny hounddog of an individual due to his relationship interests with multiple female staff members within the Celtics. While it was known that Udoka was in an open relationship with actress Nia Long, his unwanted actions with said female staff members led to the Celtics specifically suspending Udoka from his head coach position for the entire 2022-23 season on September 22, though Udoka did not plan to resign from his position in the process until around November 7, 2022, when the Brooklyn Nets fired Steve Nash from their head coach position and sought to replace him with Ime Udoka.

** Even after the name change to the Commanders, the team remains embroiled in controversy, thanks to a workplace culture so toxic that the ''United States Congress'' felt the need to step in and investigate (as of this writing, owner Dan Snyder is refusing to testify before the committee), and accusations that he's been cooking the books and not giving the other 31 owners their fair shares[[note]]The NFL operates under a "shared revenue" system, where most of the money taken in by the 32 teams is collected by the league, then redistributed equally among the clubs. This prevents the teams in the much more lucrative markets (New York, Los Angeles, California's Bay Area, etc...) from gaining an advantage over the Buffaloes and Jacksonvilles of the league. At least in theory.[[/note]]. The NFL Commissioner can, at his own discretion, call for the other 31 team owners alongside Snyder to vote on whether or not they should just throw him out of the league, and quite a few people are calling for this to happen.

* Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka went from a long-time respected assistant coach (including an NBA Finals winner in 2014 with the San Antonio Spurs) and first-time head coach that led the Boston Celtics to their first NBA Finals appearance since 2010 to someone that's considered a horny hounddog of an individual due to his relationship interests with multiple female staff members within the team. While it was known that Udoka was in an open relationship with actress Nia Long, his unwanted actions with said female staff members led to the Celtics suspending Udoka from his head coach position for the entire 2022-23 season on September 22, though Udoka has not planned to resign from his position in the process.

*** Ten countries declined to send any diplomats or official representatives to the games due to the ongoing Uyghur genocide in China, and many human rights groups protested against China's treatment of Tibetans, with some activists disrupting the torch-lighting ceremony in Olympia.
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* Nowadays, Dennis Rodman is known less for his basketball career and more for being a very bizarre person outside the paint (the series ''The Last Dance'' devotes time to some of it, like leaving training camps to party in Las Vegas or take place in wrestling events), including a widely-criticized friendship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
* Penn State's Joe Paterno is the winningest coach in major college football history, but will forever be remembered in connection with longtime assistant coach and serial child molester Jerry Sandusky. The NCAA initially stripped Penn State of nearly all of Paterno's wins as a result of the scandal, but they were eventually reinstated.

* Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is nowadays more known for shooting his girlfriend dead, for which he was convicted in 2015, than for his track career that included a stint in the actual Olympics alongside the Paralympics.

* Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and his parents gave a profoundly tone-deaf interview in which they proudly attributed his football skills to putting him through brutal corporal punishment in his childhood, including beating him with a belt to make him left-handed. Interviewer Tom Rinaldi also got quite a bit of flak for refusing to challenge this at all. Tua has also recently been well-known for an infamous period of back-to-back concussions in two weeks during the 2022 NFL season while playing for the Dolphins.

* South Korean baseball player Cho Sung-min's turbulent marriage to (and subsequent messy divorce from) actress Choi Jin-sil garnered considerably more media attention than his career, ''especially'' after he got arrested for beating her in 2004. After Choi committed suicide in 2008, Cho got into a messy custody battle with her family over the children he fathered with her. In 2012, he arrested again, this time for his involvement in a BarBrawl. The next year, he hanged himself.

* Former Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott was and is undoubtedly best known for the many, many offensive things said by her. These remarks include complaining about having to pay José Rijo "three million to sit on his butt" while he was recovering from an elbow injury, being upset at the sudden death of umpire John [=McSherry=] [[SkewedPriorities because it would postpone a game]], saying that she didn't want her players to wear earrings because "only fruits wear earrings", and ''especially'' her numerous racist comments and apparent Nazi sympathies[[note]][[Wrestling/KevinNash "This show is about as interesting as Marge Scott reading excerpts from Mein Kampf!"]][[/note]].

* Adelina Sotnikova is a well-accomplished figure skater, being a two-time European silver medallist, a two-time Rostelecom Cup bronze medallist, and a four-time Russian national champion, as well as the 2014 Olympic champion in ladies' figure skating. However, the circumstances of her 2014 Olympic champion title have overshadowed her other achievements, due to Sotnikova receiving what many consider to be an inflated score for her long program, one with noticeable flaws, as well as the fact that she had defeated South Korea's Yuna Kim, the 2010 Olympic champion who was the favorite for gold medal but had to settle for silver. Many people, including veteran skaters, were shocked at this outcome, many commentators for various networks were outraged and confused at the judges' decision [[note]]Hilariously, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIJUSAyRUgU two Italian commentators]] were so furious on Yuna Kim's behalf that they momentarily ''forgot'' about Carolina Kostner, ''their own countryman'', winning the bronze medal[[/note]], and Yuna Kim's fans were ''especially'' outraged, to the point where 'Yuna Kim was Robbed' became a trend on social media. Not helping the controversy was the judges' panel consisting of two Russian officials, a Russian judge [[note]]who happened to be Alla Shekhovtsova, the wife of the then-president of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia[[/note]], and a Ukrainian judge [[note]]who was suspended for a year after the 1998 Winter Olympics, where he was caught trying to fix the ice dancing event on tape[[/note]], and footage of one of the judges hugging Sotnikova outside the arena only added fuel to the fire, as it further raised suspicions of bias towards Russian athletes among the judges. Ironically, it's been speculated that this victory completely ''ruined'' Sotnikova's career in figure skating, as she wound up withdrawing from the 2014-15 competitive season, and didn't take part in any competitions from 2016 onwards before officially announcing her retirement from figure skating in March 2020. Today, Sotnikova is internationally known as the one who robbed Yuna Kim of a second gold medal in the 2014 Olympics, and it's highly unlikely she will be able to fully shake off that reputation outside her native Russia.

* Former baseball pitcher turned sports commentator Curt Schilling is known nowadays for his far-right political views, including some Islamophobic comments that got him fired from Fox Sports, and mocking a transgender coworker, which got him fired from ESPN. He has since become a political propagandist for the alt-right and a contributor to Breitbart, further disassociating him from sports. Because of this, it has seriously hurt his chances of making the Hall of Fame, despite being considered one of the best pitchers in baseball.

* Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver took on a similar role to that of Donald Sterling when on September 13, 2022, a nearly year-long investigation on Sarver specifically revealed nearly two decades' worth of racist, sexist, and other harsh treatments in relation to employees of his, despite him being publicly against SB 1070 (a law in Arizona that was very strict with anti-immigration in mind to the point of racial profiling in mind) in 2010. Despite the severity of his actions, Sarver was met with a year-long ban that included him going to behavioral meetings and paying a fine of $10 million to the NBA that would be donated to charities looking to end toxic behaviors that Sarver had. However, after much condemnation later for the initial ruling, Sarver himself looked to sell the team to someone else instead eight days after the initial ruling commenced.

*** It's regarded as perhaps the worst game in Super Bowl history, with a score of only 13-3.

** Even after the name change the team remains embroiled in controversy, thanks to a workplace culture so toxic that the ''United States Congress'' felt the need to step in and investigate (as of this writing owner Dan Snyder is refusing to testify before the committee), and accusations that he's been cooking the books and not giving the other 31 owners their share[[note]]The NFL operates under a "shared revenue" system, where most of the money taken in by the 32 teams is collected by the league, then redistributed equally among the clubs. This prevents the teams in the much more lucrative markets (New York, Los Angeles, California's Bay Area, etc...) from gaining an advantage over the Buffaloes and Jacksonvilles of the league. At least in theory.[[/note]]. The NFL Commissioner can, at his discretion, call for the 32 team owners to vote on whether or not they should just throw him out of the league, and quite a few people are calling for this to happen.

* The Houston Astros as a whole got hit with this when it was discovered that during the 2017 season in which they won the World Series they had engaged in a sophisticated cheating system by which an Astros staffer would watch the live video feed in the "replay room", decipher the catcher's signs, and then players would relay to the batter via banging on a trash can what pitch was coming. The scheme was revealed by former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers, who then cooperated in the investigation. The fallout cost Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow and Manager A.J. Hinch their jobs (as well as both being suspended for a year), and also led to resignations by Boston Red Sox Manager Alex Cora (who was the Astros bench coach in 2017) and New York Mets Manager Carlos Beltrán (a former Astros outfielder who was named as the "ringleader" by MLB's investigation). The Astros also were fined $5 million dollars and stripped of their 2020 and 2021 first-round picks in the MLB Draft.

* Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is nowadays more known for shooting his girlfriend dead, for which he was convicted in 2015, than for his track career.

* Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sparked controversy due to his kneeling during the national anthem during the 2016 NFL season to protest racial oppression and police brutality. Although he did not violate any rules (NFL players were encouraged to stand during the anthem but were not ''required'' to do so), a backlash against Kaepernick led to him getting blackballed from the NFL. This ultimately backfired when other NFL players began kneeling during the anthem, and UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's protests and demands that the players who do so be fired only added further fuel to the fire. While Kaepernick's actions and the controversy that followed them were re-analyzed in 2020 after several high-profile deaths of African Americans, most notably George Floyd in May 2020, at the hands of police officers sparked massive protests across America, it still meant that nowadays, Kaepernick is better known as an activist than a football player.

* Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and his parents gave a profoundly tone-deaf interview in which they proudly attributed his football skills to putting him through brutal corporal punishment in his childhood, including beating him with a belt to make him left-handed. Interviewer Tom Rinaldi also got quite a bit of flak for refusing to challenge this at all.

* Aaron Hernandez is less known for being recognized as an All-American during his days at the University of Florida or being half of one of the NFL's most dominant tight end duos during his three seasons with the New England Patriots than he is for being convicted of the murder of Odin Lloyd and committing suicide in prison.
* Offensive guard Richie Incognito is most well-known for his ringleading role in the [[TheBully bullying]] of teammate Jonathan Martin which got him suspended from the Miami Dolphins (the team he was playing for at the time).

* Dale Earnhardt is often considered one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time, becoming the second driver to ever win seven Winston Cup Championships[[note]]Today just the NASCAR Cup Series[[/note]] and holding 76 wins to his name, but most people only know him for his death in the 2001 Daytona 500.

* Adelina Sotnikova is a well-accomplished figure skater, being a two-time European silver medallist, a two-time Rostelecom Cup bronze medallist, and a four-time Russian national champion, as well as the 2014 Olympic champion in ladies' figure skating. However, the circumstances of her 2014 Olympic champion title have overshadowed her other achievements, due to Sotnikova receiving what many consider to be an inflated score for her long program, one with noticeable flaws, as well as the fact that she had defeated South Korea's Yuna Kim, the 2010 Olympic champion who was the favourite for gold medal but had to settle for silver. Many people, including veteran skaters, were shocked at this outcome, many commentators for various networks were outraged and confused at the judges' decision [[note]]Hilariously, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIJUSAyRUgU two Italian commentators]] were so furious on Yuna Kim's behalf that they momentarily ''forgot'' about Carolina Kostner, ''their own countryman'', winning the bronze medal[[/note]], and Yuna Kim's fans were ''especially'' outraged, to the point where 'Yuna Kim was Robbed' became a trend on social media. Not helping the controversy was the judges' panel consisting of two Russian officials, a Russian judge [[note]]who happened to be Alla Shekhovtsova, the wife of the then-president of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia[[/note]], and a Ukrainian judge [[note]]who was suspended for a year after the 1998 Winter Olympics, where he was caught trying to fix the ice dancing event on tape[[/note]], and footage of one of the judges hugging Sotnikova outside the arena only added fuel to the fire, as it further raised suspicions of bias towards Russian athletes among the judges. Ironically, it's been speculated that this victory completely ''ruined'' Sotnikova's career in figure skating, as she wound up withdrawing from the 2014-15 competitive season, and didn't take part in any competitions from 2016 onwards before officially announcing her retirement from figure skating in March 2020. Today, Sotnikova is internationally known as the one who robbed Yuna Kim of a second gold medal in the 2014 Olympics, and it's highly unlikely she will be able to fully shake off that reputation outside her native Russia.

* Figure skating coach Peter Oppegard was once remembered as a three-time U.S. national champion and as the 1988 Olympic bronze medallist in pair skating with his former partner Jill Watson. Since February 2021, Oppegard is more known for allegations of physical abuse against his students, including throwing hot water and coffee at the skaters he'd coached at the East West Ice Palace in California, and even biting pair skater Jessica Pfund on her right arm during a training session in 2013, when Pfund was only 15 years old. With multiple allegations surrounding him, it's safe to say that this is what he will be known about more than his other accomplishments.

* The Washington Commanders were best known by non-sports fans because of their former name for many decades, the Washington Redskins, seen by many as a racial slur used against Native Americans (with their logo being a caricature of one). There were many campaigns to persuade the team to change it. None of these succeeded until July 2020, when various major outlets (including Nike and Amazon) refused to sell any more Redskins merchandise and [=FedEx=] threatened to remove its name from the team's stadium unless the name was changed, resulting in the team's much more generic name of Washington Football Team for the 2020 and 2021 seasons before being rebranded as the Commanders from 2022 onwards.

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* Chris Dawson was a prominent Australian rugby league footballer in the 1970's, playing second row alongside his identical twin brother Paul for the Newtown Jets. But Dawson is lesser known these days for his football career and more for the cloud of suspicion that has been following him ever since the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Lynette, and the revelation that he had been engaging in an affair with a 16-year-old student at the high school where he had been employed as a P.E. teacher after he left football; it was strongly suspected, but not yet proven in court, that Dawson murdered his wife in order to allow his underage mistress (who he later married) to move in with him. As of February 2020, Dawson was out on bail awaiting trial.

* Eteri Tutberidze is a prominent Russian skating coach who specializes in the women's discipline, and has coached several female skaters to international success, including three Olympic champions[[note]]Yulia Lipnitskaya in the 2014 team event, Alina Zagitova in the 2018 women's event, and Anna Shcherbakova in the 2022 women's event[[/note]], two Olympic silver medallists[[note]]Evgenia Medvedeva in 2018 and Alexandra Trusova in 2022[[/note]], and the aforementioned Kamila Valieva. Nevertheless, she's also well-known for her abusive coaching methods such as encouraging dehydration and starvation in her students, and many of her skaters have retired before the age of 18 after suffering serious injuries. Then, in February 2022, Tutberidze faced a new level of controversy during Valieva's doping controversy at the 2022 Winter Olympics, with several skaters and coaches criticizing not only her abusive methods, but also the judges' bias towards her skaters, particularly after Valieva was cleared to compete in the women's individual event despite her positive drug test[[note]]This is especially egregious considering that non-Russian skaters have received more severe penalties for minor infractions[[/note]]. While Tutberidze is still a coach in Russia, there's little doubt that this controversy and her abusive training methods are what she will be remembered for.

* Eteri Tutberidze is a prominent Russian skating coach who specializes in the women's discipline, and has coached several female skaters to international success, including three Olympic champions and the aforementioned Kamila Valieva. Nevertheless, she's also well-known for her abusive coaching methods such as encouraging dehydration and starvation in her students, and many of her skaters have retired before the age of 18 after suffering serious injuries. Then, in February 2022, Tutberidze faced a new level of controversy during Valieva's doping controversy at the 2022 Winter Olympics, with several skaters and coaches criticizing not only her abusive methods, but also the judges' bias towards her skaters, particularly after Valieva was cleared to compete in the women's individual event despite her positive drug test[[note]]This is especially egregious considering that non-Russian skaters have received more severe penalties for minor infractions[[/note]]. While Tutberidze is still a coach in Russia, there's little doubt that this controversy and her abusive training methods are what she will be remembered for.

* Former ice dancer Tatiana Navka is known for being the 2006 Olympic Champion, a two-time World Champion, and a three-time European Champion with her former partner Roman Kostomarov. Since her retirement, she's become more well-known for being the wife of Dmitry Peskov, who is the media spokesperson for Vladimir Putin himself. Other controversies include her and her skating partner dressing up as a Holocaust concentration camp prisoner on the Russian version of ''Dancing on Ice'', and her homophobic comments about Spanish gymnast Cristofer Benítez in 2021, implying that any man who took part in rhythmic gymnastics was taking part in a "feminine sport", which drew considerable backlash from many prominent skaters both in and outside of Russia.

* Eteri Tutberidze is a prominent Russian skating coach who specializes in the women's discipline, and has coached several female skaters to international success, including three Olympic champions and the aforementioned Kamila Valieva. Nevertheless, she has often been criticized for her abusive coaching methods such as encouraging dehydration and starvation in her students, and many of her students have retired before the age of 18 after suffering serious injuries. Then, in February 2022, Tutberidze faced a new level of controversy during Valieva's doping controversy at the 2022 Winter Olympics, with several skaters and coaches criticizing not only her abusive methods, but also the judges' bias towards her skaters, particularly after Valieva was cleared to compete in the women's individual event despite her positive drug test. While Tutberidze is still a coach in Russia, there's little doubt that this controversy and her abusive training methods are what she will be remembered for.

* Eteri Tutberidze is a prominent Russian skating coach who specializes in the women's discipline, and has coached several female skaters to international success (including the aforementioned Kamila Valieva), including three Olympic champions. Nevertheless, she has often been criticized for her abusive coaching methods such as encouraging dehydration and starvation in her students, and many of her students have retired before the age of 18 after suffering serious injuries. Then, in February 2022, Tutberidze faced a new level of controversy during Valieva's doping controversy at the 2022 Winter Olympics, with several skaters and coaches criticizing not only her abusive methods, but also the judges' bias towards her skaters, particularly after Valieva was cleared to compete in the women's individual event despite her positive drug test. While Tutberidze is still a coach in Russia, there's little doubt that this controversy and her abusive training methods are what she will be remembered for.

* The November 17, 1968 AFL game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets is known as the "Heidi Game" for a controversy related to NBC's coverage of the event. When the game ran long, the remainder was preempted in the eastern half of the United States by a previously scheduled broadcast of a ''Heidi'' TV movie. This meant that large parts of the country missed the Raiders' exciting come-from-behind victory, where they scored two touchdowns in the final minute of the game.

** The 2013 Boston Marathon is remembered for a deadly bombing that killed three people and wounded 270 others in an act of domestic terrorism.[[note]]"Domestic terrorism" isn't really accurate. The two bombers were brothers from Dagestan (part of the Russian Federation but not ethnically Russian) and were radicalized by the writings of Islamic terror groups they read online, but all evidence points to them acting alone and not being a member of any specific terror group or ordered to commit the attack by someone else. So not quite the same thing as the 1996 Olympics bombing mentioned above. Speaking of which, younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed while authorities were attempting to apprehend them, to add insult to injury Dzhokhar then accidentally ran him over with a SUV) and Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph are currently incarcerated together at ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado, though when Tsarnaev's execution date is finally set he will be moved to USP Terre Haute in Indiana.[[/note]]

* Larry Nassar, while never well known by the public, was a reputable physician in American gymnastics circles, being the USA Gymnastics national team doctor for some time and also the house doctor for the Karolyi Ranch of [[DrillSergeantNasty Béla and Márta Károlyi]] fame.[[note]]Which was also the official USA Gymnastics and women's national gymnastics team training grounds.[[/note]] This changed when two former gymnasts publicly accused Nassar of sexual abuse in 2016. This led to other women accusing him of sexual abuse as well, with more than 300 victims eventually coming forward. These allegations would ultimately expose a pattern of sexual abuse that had been prevalent since at least ''1992''. As a result, it's almost impossible that he will ever recover his former reputation, [[LongerThanLifeSentence as he was sentenced to 60 years for child porn in federal prison in 2017. He was also sentenced in 2018 to 40 to 175 years in state prison for the sexual abuse]]. The judge who sentenced him for the latter called it his "death warrant"[[note]]Speaking of which, coach John Geddert (of 2012 U.S. Olympic team fame) shot himself in a rest stop bathroom stall upon learning he had been indicted for multiple felonies related to the case, among them sexual assault, racketeering, and ''20 counts of human trafficking and forced labor''[[/note]]. The controversy also spread over to the entire USA Gymnastics organization and Michigan State University, both longtime employers of Nassar, which led to huge repercussions for both. USAG severed its ties with the Károlyis during the sentencing phase of Nassar's state trial, leading to the closure of Karolyi Ranch. And then USAG itself filed for bankruptcy, shortly after the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee took the first steps toward stripping USAG of its role as the official US governing body for that sport.

* Baseball player Roberto Osuna received a year-long suspension in 2018 for allegedly assaulting his son's mother. The case ended inconclusively and he was quickly snapped up by the Astros after the suspension ended, but any chance of his being known for anything else ended at the 2019 World Series, when Astros assistant manager Brandon Taubman bizarrely went out of his way to draw attention to it, shouting to three female reporters (including one wearing a bracelet promoting awareness of domestic violence) "I’m so fucking glad we got Osuna," when he hadn't even been particularly notable in the game just played. The rest of the team’s management then accused the reporters of completely making the story up despite numerous witnesses, until they were finally forced to admit it was true and fire Taubman a few days later. Meanwhile, Osuna himself understandably just tried to keep completely out of the whole mess.

** Even after the name change the team remains embroiled in controversy, thanks to a workplace culture so toxic that the ''United States Congress'' felt the need to step in and investigate (as of this writing owner Dan Snyder is refusing to testify before the committee), and accusations that he's been cooking the books and not giving the other 31 owners their share[[note]]The NFL operates under a "shared revenue" system, where most of the money taken in by the 32 teams is collected by the league, then redistributed equally among the clubs. This prevents the teams in the much more lucrative markets (New York, Los Angeles, California's Bay Area, etc...) from gaining an advantage over the Buffaloes and Jacksonvilles of the league[[/note]]. The NFL Commissioner can, at his discretion, call for the 32 team owners to vote on whether or not they should just throw him out of the league, and quite a few people are calling for this to happen.

** Even after the name change the team remains embroiled in controversy, thanks to a workplace culture so toxic that the ''United States Congress'' felt the need to step in and investigate (as of this writing Snyder is refusing to testify before the committee), and accusations that he's been cooking the books and not giving the other 31 owners their share[[note]]The NFL operates under a "shared revenue" system, where most of the money taken in by the 32 teams is collected by the league, then redistributed equally among the clubs. This prevents the teams in the much more lucrative markets (New York, Los Angeles, California's Bay Area, etc...) from gaining an advantage over the Buffaloes and Jacksonvilles of the league[[/note]]. The NFL Commissioner can, at his discretion, call for the 32 team owners to vote on whether or not they should just throw him out of the league, and quite a few people are calling for this to happen.