Crime in Sports

This week, we we start a two parter on a man who came from absolutely nothing, watching his mother cry, because she couldn't provide. This gives him the motivation to work hard enough to be drafted in the NFL, by the Green Bay Packers, but also the motivation to apparently be a huge, violent jerk. He attacks exchange student pizza delivery men, bouncers, people trying to stop him from fighting, an...

This week, we talk about a journeyman NBA player, who managed to stay in the league for over a decade, but never made the impact he wanted. While bouncing around the league, he got in beefs with several players, coaches, another player's mother, and even a high school journalist. But he also had iussues with his own reality star wife, and got publicly dissed by Rhianna. Currently, he has actually...

This week, we find out about an Australian olympian, in a sport that we've never covered, canoeing! He had all the promise in the world, but he also had a need to seemingly try to build a giant drug empire. He is busted many times, including one attempted shipment of cocaine, that had the Australian Navy, giving chase, while bricks of cocaine were hurled overboard. This resulted in massive amounts...

This week, we find out about an NFL player, who depended on his speed, but didn't count on being out of the league, just as fast. He started acting strangely. He yelled at coaches & sucker punched a team mate. From there, he quickly goes down hill, off the field, with more strange behavior, which grows increasingly more violent, with arrest, after arrest. Was it mental illness, or head trauma?   T...

This week, we finish this epic tale with Billy, trying to live a peaceful "retirement", on a large farm property in upstate New York. It seems like the perfect place, but Billy is bored, and plotting his managerial return to the Yankees. This boredom causes Billy to drink, and fight with his wife, leaving broken glass, and melted ice cream, in their wake. We finally end with Billy's sudden death,...

This week, we pick up with Billy being arrested, on the front lawn of his girlfriend's house. He's  rehired as the Yankee manager, only to be fired, at the end of the season. But dont worry, he'll be hired & fired, again! He also gets in a four part brawl with one of his own pitchers, and is attacked in a strip club bathroom. He's divorced, remarried, and looking for how to deal with life, when no...

This week, we find Billy fired, again. He's also living a double life, by getting married to his teenaged girlfriend, but also carrying on an affair, right out in the open, with an attractive photographer. He also gets another job, and is fired. He gets in several fights, including a certain marshmallow salesman, and several others, all while the IRS breathes down his neck. Oh, also gets another j...

This week, we catch up to a triumphant Billy, as he basks in the glow of World Series victory. This, of course, leads him to brutally pummel a reporter, who dared ask a question about a recent Yankee trade. He is forced to resign, only to be rehired, within 2 months. He fights with players, reporters, and one, very angry team owner. He also finds love, with a young lady, who many people believe is...

This week, we find Billy Martin at the brink of a triumphant season, that would cement his managerial legacy. The problem is, there's going to be much drama, in the process. From fighting, in the dugout, on national televison, with his star player, to fighting with the team owner, at 2 am, after everyone has had a few cocktails, to causing a scene, by fighting with his wife, during a celebration.....

This week, we take a break from our Billy Martin series, to bring you a bonus episode, that is more relevant than ever, right now. Mixing otherwordly talent, with the black cloud of gambling allegations, hanging over head, makes this as crazy a story as we've talked about. Did the greatest talent, in the game of baseball, the modern day face of game, actually commit acts that should have him banne...

This week, we catch up with Billy, as he is again fired, despite being the league's Manager of the Year. He fights, more & more, with his celebrity getting him out of multiple arrests. But his celebrity doesn't help his attempted cocaine mule of a daughter. He lands his dream gig, as manager of the New York Yankees, only to almost be fired for talking back to the owner. Billy will never learn!   G...

This week, we follow Billy's exploits, as his teams perform wonderfully, on the field, but it's still not enough to keep him from getting repeatedly fired. Why? Because he fights with team owners, opposing players/managers/fans & umpires. He even beats one of his own players, so badly, that they have to be hospitalized for 20 stitches to their face! Then, he gets arrested for actually doing someth...

This week, Billy starts out on another new team, but that doesn't last long. He bounces around the league, while fighting, and even getting sued by another player, who ended up with a broken orbital bone. As he tries to live down his fighter reputation, he get into even more fights. He even fights a team official, in a hotel lobby. With his playing career over, he also enters the managerial stage...

This week, we catch up with Billy, as he is forced back into the Army, missing an entire season of Yankee baseball. He is also labeled as a "troublemaker", and a "bad influence" on teammates like Mickey Mantle, just because they go out drinking, every night, and a major brawl happened to beak out at the Copacabana, at Billy's birthday party! He fights, he scraps, and he gets traded, all over the l...

This week, we start out with Billy, being a big part of the NY Yankees, and making lifelong friends with Micky Mantle. After a few World Series wins, and a quick marriage, Billy settles into the serious business of partying, and NY night life. This includes many fist fights, both on & off the baseball field, and a carzy time, at a ranch, where shots are fired, and things end up dead!    Marry your...

This week, we start a series on one of the most colorful characters in sports history. A hard drinking brawler, who knew nothing but success in baseball. We start this tale, with Billy's dad, taking off, while he was a baby. We delve into his upbringing, just hanging around his aunt's brothel, or getting into constant fights, but at the same time, discovering baseball as a way to get out of his ro...

This week, a man who never quite made the impact he wanted to, in the NFL, despite his Notre Dame pedigree. Whenever his talent would get him to a good spot, he'd screw it up, with his actions. He was out of the NFL, by age 25, and ready to start being an even worse person. The prison sentence he's currently serving, is for a crime that was so horrific, the judge wished he could sentence him to ev...

This week, a longtime UFC mainstay, and notoriously colorful character, who always seems to say the exact wrong thing. Mostly, at the exact wrong time. Training alongside his brother, from a young age, he knew his path to success would be through fighting. Sometimes, that fighting isn't in the ring. Sometimes, it's out in the street, or backstage at an event. It could happen anywhere. He didn't co...

This week, a major league baseball pitcher, who had a hard time staying on one team, or even in one league. His journeyman career took him all over the world, but his troubles started at home. He traded in one wife, for a new wife, costing himself millions of dollars. Opened a failed bar, that the "Bar Rescue" tv show couldn't save. But his real trouble started when he decided to shoot his in laws...

This week, we tell the story of a man who never had much to call his own. Neglected, and abandoned at a young age, he grew up with no family. Luckily for him, he had basketball skills. Enough skills to make him only the 11th player to be drafted to the NBA, out of high school. Only problem is, he wasn't prepared for the league, or life. Next thing you know, he's covered in green war paint, and tel...

This week, we check out a former Dallas Cowboy great, who started out by being given up by his mother, at age 2. He grew up in rough conditions, only to come out the other side as a star. Then, it all fell apart. Cocaine, booze, bad driving, fraud, fighting with girlfriends, and wandering the neighborhood, barefoot, banging on doors, and screaming for his wife. Also, several funny nicknames. Crazy...

This week, we talk about an Olympic gold medalist boxer, who actually beat Mike Tyson, twice in one month! He came from South Central, LA, landing hinself in jail, at 13. His teen years bring more trouble, but a prison boxing program brings him to fame. Problem is, that fame is fleeting, and he keeps getrting arrested. For fraud, and even murder!   Start boxing in a prison program, take yourself a...

This week, we wrap up the story of one of the US's most notorious serial killers, with Randy, heading to more trials, even though he's already sentenced to over 100 years. All the while, Randy is in prison, writing all sorts of women, who send him money, and horrible photos. He also hooks up with a famous & deranged female murderer. Later, he is linked to many more killings. We may never know exac...

This week, the tale of a notorious serial killer continues, with Randy heading to trial for murder. His strategy is simple, he didn't do it, and all the witnesses are wrong, including a woman he assaulted, shot & left for dead. Plus, there is another man, the defense accuses for all the crimes. Will it work? Even if it does, there's 2 other states getting ready to try Randy for even more murders....

This week, we continue the story of a serial killer! Randy has just been arrested on a parole violation, and he sits down for an interrogation, giving away more than he would've liked. Detectives also link his gun to 4 murders, and get many living victims to identify him in a lineup. His only hope is a female friend, who just may have been his partner in crime, for some robberies. Will she lie for...