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Diego Maradona - Hand of God Plucky Argentinian Diego Maradona, coke fiend and widely considered one of the two best soccer players ever commits an outrageous handball against England in quarter finals of the 1986 World Cup. Not long after after Argentina and England had been at war over some stupid rocks in the South Atlantic just to add extra spice to it. When asked about the goal Maradona said: "The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God. A little by the head of Maradona".  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ccNkksrfls Later in the game he went on to score one of the best goals in World Cup football ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_2arqQLwo He scored both Argentinian goals in their 2-1 victory. JFairfax fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Mar 17, 2017 |
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DJExile posted:lmao i love that sedin thing Smokey never cheated. He just taught the rules to sit up and beg. 
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Leperflesh posted:I read the article and it sounds like it was totally legal play, e.g. they weren't cheating, they just broke Unwritten Rules about the Spirit Of the Game. Yuck. No, it was cheating
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I still argue that, if you watch the play on slow mo replay, Gant pushed into Hrbek but you can't convince Braves fans of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiraekmCNv4
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There was the time a team owner hired a midget to bat. He walked on four pitches.
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JFairfax posted:Diego Maradona - Hand of God Seems he would be on a list of great volleyball players, too.
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DJExile posted:I think he kept it locked straight up like that Stopped the air from hitting the roof cam, yeah. I forget how much drag that took off.
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tadashi posted:I still argue that, if you watch the play on slow mo replay, Gant pushed into Hrbek but you can't convince Braves fans of this. Interesting question: what is the difference between cheating and just breaking the rules? Because that play seems to be just a spur-of-the-moment bodies colliding type of thing. Like, in a basketball game, someone who grabs someone's jersey when they go up for a rebound isn't "cheating". Its against the rules, but it isn't cheating. To me, cheating involves a premeditated plan to subvert the basic play of the game, often in a malicious way. So football teams doing unnecessary roughness isn't cheating, but the New Orleans Saints giving bounties for injuries is.
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Wandle Cax posted:No, it was cheating It wasn't disallowed by the rules, while a different league explicitly disallowed it; they told the officials he was going to bowl underhand, and the officials allowed it; and after doing it, the officials did not penalize the team. So it wasn't cheating. It wasn't even breaking the rules. It was just "unsporting." It broke unwritten "rules" about conduct. That's different, fundamentally, from intentionally doing something disallowed in order to gain an advantage while trying to avoid being caught for doing it.
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Formula 1 is a sport pretty much built on rule-bending (Renault's mass-damper, McLaren's F-duct and fiddle brakes, Brawn's double-diffuser, Ferrari's coded team orders) but when it comes to outright cheating, Crashgate is at the top. At the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, Renault's double world champion Fernando Alonso had a mechanical failure in qualifying that left him in 15th place on the grid. During the race (Singapore being a track where it's notoriously hard to overtake), though, Alonso's teammate Nelson Piquet Jr crashed just after Alonso had pitted for fuel, bringing out the safety car. Alonso ended up near the front of the pack, and because of his advantageous fuel load - and the fact that he's Fernando Alonso, one of the most talented F1 drivers of all time - he eventually won the race. Luck and skill win out, right? Er, no: not the "luck" part, anyway. Piquet was later fired by Renault, and in retaliation he went to the FIA with a crazy-sounding story that he'd been ordered to crash in Singapore on a particular lap at a particular corner (one without a recovery crane, which would guarantee a safety car being called out) after Alonso pitted so that he could leap up the field in the confusion. At least, it would have been crazy if it hadn't turned out to be true. The end result was that team boss Flávio Briatori and engineering director Pat Symonds resigned (and were given lifetime bans from motorsport by the FIA, but these were eventually lifted), while Piquet Jr (and his father) won a libel case against Renault. Renault lost a bunch of sponsors and gained a shitload of negative press. Piquet Jr never raced in F1 again, though did become the first ever world champion in Formula E. Despite the fix, Fernando Alonso did not win the F1 world championship in 2008. Or 2009. Or 2010. Or 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 or 16...
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This is pretty insignificant compared to most of these stories, but it was a slick 2 points. Start of the 2nd half of a women's basketball game this year, the inbounding team puts 3 players in the back court and 1 in the front court. The other team sets up to defend the other team's goal. Inbound to the girl in the front court who gets an uncontested layup. Phone-posting the link: https://www.google.com/amp/m.herosports.com/amp/news/womens-college-basketball-duke-louisville-wrong-side-defense-basketball
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Payndz posted:Formula 1 is a sport pretty much built on rule-bending (Renault's mass-damper, McLaren's F-duct and fiddle brakes, Brawn's double-diffuser, Ferrari's coded team orders) but when it comes to outright cheating, Crashgate is at the top. It also deprived Felipe Massa of a decent points haul, he would go on to lose the championship on the last lap of the last race by one point.
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this has got to be one of the biggest, most high profile cheating incidents ever Calciopoli 2006: The match-fixing scandal that got Juventus relegated One of the greatest match-fixing scandals of the 21st century, the Calciopoli scandal of 2006 saw Serie A teams Juventus, Fiorentina and Lazio get relegated while AC Milan received a points deduction. Back in 2004, two very different yet startling rumours started doing the rounds. One alleged that the Juventus players were susceptible to doping while the other talked of illegal betting and corrupt referees. Naturally, a taskforce was set up and the Italian police began investigating these claims.Though both rumours proved to be ungrounded, the investigating magistrates' wiretaps turned up something much bigger: The Calciopoli.In the spring of 2006, the Turin magistrates approached Italy’s football authorities but swiftly realised that the governing bodies were themselves implicated. Then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, president and owner of AC Milan, was not in favour of a public investigation as his club was one of the big four in the line of fire.Hence, the magistrates turned to the press and the Calciopoli became front page news.Voluminous but inconclusive evidence from the wiretaps showed the then Juventus sporting director Luciano Moggi communicating in an “exclusive” manner with the referee designators of Serie A, attempting to influence results by picking certain referees he considered more favourable to Juventus or more likely to rule in favour of the Old Lady on a dubious call.The scandal painted a shady picture of a vast and shadowy network of untraceable phone cards, secret payoffs and Godfatheresque proposals no match official could refuse. It was further alleged that throughout the season, top players of rival clubs were shown a calculated number of yellow cards in a bid to ensure their suspension when their teams faced the record Italian champions https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/calciopoli-2006-match-fixing-scandal-juventus-relegated
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The Bench Tackle in the 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSteCSinjTs Midway through the second quarter, Rice running back Dicky Moegle (he changed the spelling of his name later, which is why it's not spelled the same in the video) broke a long run down the Alabama sideline. Alabama running back Tommy Lewis, who was sitting on the Alabama bench, decided to jump off the bench and tackle Moegle at the Alabama 42, denying him a touchdown. While there was no specific rule against this (other than a fairly lame penalty for having 12 men on the field), the referee used the palpably unfair act rule to award Moegle a 95-yard touchdown run, and Rice went on to win the game 28-6. When asked later what possessed him to do this, Lewis could only explain that he was "too full of Alabama". Rice is now one of the worst programs in the top college football division (and they would not win another bowl game until 2008), but still holds a 3-0 all-time record against Alabama (a perennial power). Incoherence fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Mar 18, 2017 |
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If we're talking NHL hockey, there's Martin Brodeur.  Also, I guess Marty McSorley in the 93 Cup finals with the illegal stick counts? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Stanley_Cup_Finals quote:The turning point of the series for the Canadiens came late in the third period of game two. With the Kings leading by a score of 2–1, Canadiens coach Jacques Demers called for a measurement of the curve of Kings defenceman Marty McSorley's stick. The stick was deemed illegal and McSorley was given a two-minute minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct. As it was late in the game and Montreal was facing the prospect of going to Los Angeles down two games to none, Demers pulled goalie Patrick Roy, producing a 6-on-4 advantage for the Canadiens. Montreal's Éric Desjardins scored from the point to tie the game at two and force overtime. Desjardins then scored his third goal of the game 51 seconds into overtime to give Montreal the win and the momentum heading toward games three and four at the Great Western Forum.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKjVQbYcTiY Audi R8's Quick Gearbox Change In endurance racing especially from the 2000s on back, you will never have a trouble free endurance race. Audi knew they would have a suspect gearbox and in those days would take about 30 minutes to an hour to change a gear box by getting through the rear end and into the gear box. Audi thought of a modular system so to change a gear box is disconnecting everything from the rear end to the gear box in a quick change. This Audi went from leading to only a lap or down with 17 hours to be able to work that back. Might be wrong but it was outlawed around 2004 or so and with how technologically advanced LMP1H cars are now with hybrid power, I don't know if that could be possible now. e: Ah after 2002 teams lobbied to prohibit removing the gear box casing but you can change the individual gears. Thanks to the Audi, sports cars brought the Balance of Performance rule set where it tries to equalize cars where one might be much stronger than the other, but it gets hit with restrictions and such. BMB5150 fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Mar 18, 2017 |
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CannonFodder posted:The 1904 Olympics in St Louis MO had one of the strangest finishes. Jon Bois actaully did a Pretty Good on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4AhABManTw
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I've got a book here which has a section on Sporting Scandals. I think most of them have already been mentioned in here, but here's one that might have escaped everyone's radars, from the not-so-honourable world of Sumo:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/28/sumo-wrestles-illegal-betting-scandal posted:Sumo wrestling, already suffering a tarnished reputation, is facing its greatest scandal in years amid revelations of extortion, illegal gambling and ties with the criminal underworld. That article and the book also point out ties between sumo and the yakuza, to the point where they were banned from tournaments. E: The book also points out that while gambling is a crime in Japan, match-fixing isn't, bizarrely. HJB fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Mar 18, 2017 |
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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Infidel Castro posted:Jon Bois actaully did a Pretty Good on this. holy poo poo 
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How is it that none of you has posted the classic tale of The Whizzinator?quote:From ESPN in 2005...
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And speaking of Sumo Wrestling, back in 1994 it was discovered that wrestlers were getting implants over the tops of their skulls in order to meet the minimum height requirement.The L.A. Times from 1994 posted:TOKYO — To gain the minimum height requirement to be a sumo wrestler, a Japanese teen-ager had 6 inches of silicone implanted under his scalp. Takeji Harada, 16, who failed six previous eligibility tests, finally made it to 5 feet 8 inches in June, thanks to the huge bulge on his head. AP Wire Report from 1994 posted:TOKYO (AP) _ Elevator shoes won't do it in the barefoot world of sumo wrestling, so some wrestlers have tried to meet the sport's height requirement by putting lumps of silicon under their scalps. 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgrace_of_Gij%C3%B3n Germany and Austria are playing each other in the World Cup. Germany and Austria both advance from the group stage if Germany wins 1-0. Guess what the score of the game was. FIFA didn't exactly fix this either, all they did was make it so the final group stage games were played simultaneously. If you remember the 2014 World Cup, Germany and the U.S. went into their match knowing that a tie would get them both through. This led to many jokes and winks, especially since the US coach was a former German star, but the game was legitimately played. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_2006_Winter_Olympics#Allegations_of_Sweden_throwing_a_game Sweden won the gold medal in hockey at the 2006 Olympics. They lost their final group stage game 3-0 to Slovakia, to get Switzerland instead of Canada or the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals. The most hilarious example of the cheat was them not attempting a single shot on goal during a 5-on-3 power play. They successfully avoided Canada but beat the Czechs anyway on the way to gold. ElwoodCuse fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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Crazy Ted posted:How is it that none of you has posted the classic tale of The Whizzinator? This sounds a lot like the contraption that Michel Pollentier used.
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Somebody do something about Ben Johnson
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Crazy Ted posted:How is it that none of you has posted the classic tale of The Whizzinator? My favorite part of this is that I believe Smith (and possibly all NFL players?) were subject to, essentially, face-to-face supervision during the testing. So he wound up suspended for a year (and never playing again) for possessing a device that wouldn't have helped him evade his testing. TSA also asked if the powdered urine was cocaine and his response was, allegedly, "nah, you don't wanna snort that".
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Every team in NASCAR is looking for any advantage to make their car lighter and to lower the center of gravity. Sometimes you leave the oil cap off for airflow, which gives about 50hp. Or, you could make your car lighter by literally dipping all the sheet metal in acid. This leads to the sheet metal to 'shed', which makes it a bit thinner and lighter http://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/cup/news/story?id=3657328 This has two major effects. 1st -- this pretty much killed Red Bull Racing in NASCAR at a time when the sport was no longer able to find competitive teams. The point penalty meant they fell out of the guaranteed starting spot slot, meaning they could actually show up to the track (which costs hundreds of thousands) and not actually race 2nd - it is monumentally stupid from a safety stand point. They had no idea what would happened to the metal if it ended up in a wreck. Additionally, the driver of the car? He has blood clot issues! All in all, the RBR experiment was a hilarious waste of money plus the Scott Speed experiment
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The Dodgers cheated by hiring Jackie Robinson.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5I_vke1nMc If you ain't cheating, you ain't tryin'
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5I_vke1nMc yessssssss this was so loving good
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RE2PECT CHEATER2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U9jttDSUCg Bob James fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Mar 20, 2017 |
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Bob James posted:RE2PECT CHEATER2 Getting hit with a recoiling ball still has to hurt, though. So he might not have been faking the pain.
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glowing-fish posted:Getting hit with a recoiling ball still has to hurt, though. So he might not have been faking the pain. If he wasn't faking the pain you'd think he would be holding the part it actually hit
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If you're gonna fake being HBP this is clearly the way to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyNZGm4gVH8
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Every member of the Harlem Globetrotters made a Faustian bargain in exchange for demonic bball powers. Whether or not you consider this cheating is up to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frImW50n5Rk
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Bob James posted:Every member of the Harlem Globetrotters made a Faustian bargain in exchange for demonic bball powers. Whether or not you consider this cheating is up to you. The Harlem Globetrotters are god's gift to basketball and would never cheat. There are no rules against bringing water buckets full of confetti onto the court 
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This is obviously a classic which I'm sure many of you have already seen many times over. Even though everyone in the match knows it's illegal they are still powerless to stop it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQFkSFDpn8
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5I_vke1nMc Miss u every day Eddie viva la raza
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NickRoweFillea posted:Miss u every day Eddie viva la raza
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