The Most Despicable Things In Sports

The New York Yankees

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.  Someday the Yankees are going to look around and find that people stopped putting up with their shennanigans a long time ago.  People love a winner, sometimes at whatever means necessary.  The operative word there is winner, which is something the Yankees have forgotten how to do.  Oh sure, 102-60 records year in and year out sure do look pretty, but the fact remains: they spend hundreds of millions of dollars to put together a winner, and then at some point forgot that you have to win first.  They thought they had their simpleton, puny rivals The Boston Red Sox down for the count in the 2004 ALCS.  They basically threw mud, stoned them, and spit on them.  They laughed.  Then, in a fit of pure malice, rage, fury, and determination, The Sox got back up and threw a haymaker that knocked the Yankees out could.  They blew a 3-0 series lead, and became the first team in baseball history to do so.  Oh, and this year... they asked the 50-112 Tampa Bay Devil Rays to forfeit a game because the D-Rays were late arriving.  Because of Hurricane Frances.  But isn't it great to be a Yankee?

The University of Iowa Hawkeyes Men's Basketball Team since the 1999-2000 season

I was once a believer in purity.  I loved the University of Iowa once.  I thought they could do no wrong.  Then they hired Steve Alford.  It took a while to have the full ramifications set in, but they did around the time of the 2001 season, when Pierre Pierce joined the team.  The guy was trouble from the get-go, and finally his true colors showed when he committed a heinous crime against a young woman on the women's basketball team (who was the girlfriend of fellow teammate Glen Worley, for the record).  Alford, ever the moralist, got his player off on a technicality, and Pierce played on.  Suddenly, however, Carver Hawkeye Arena was getting more and more empty.  There were still those who played the fiddle while Rome burned, and continued to blindly support an empty shell of a program that had sold its soul.  For what,  you ask?  An unlikely bid to the NCAA tournament in 2001 via the Big Ten tournament.  Pierre Pierce went and did it again earlier this year (the same charge... sexual assault.  The same girl, too), and the Hawkeyes will miss the NCAAs again.  Alford, in the meantime is still a prick.  Pierce is gone, but as long as Alford is around, this team will continue to be the bane of my existence.  A lot of people have started returning to the games because Pierce is gone.  Fools.  There will be another Pierre Pierce soon enough, but in the meantime you enjoy being a part of one the worst fanbases in all of college basketball.

The Colorado Buffaloes

Gary Barnett and his coaching staff.  Enough said.  Oh, wait, not quite.  Rape, rape, rape, more rape, lies to cover up the rape, a do-nothing athletic department which lets some shit slide... and then not surprsingly, more rape.  Even Alford has his limits.