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Best of the Worst 2006 (cont.)

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By Steve Rushin

CASTING SUSPICION
Fishermen were drug-tested at the World Angling Championships in Portugal.

YOU WANNA SUPERSIZE THAT?
Detroit Lions assistant coach Joe Cullen was arrested for allegedly using a Wendy's drive-through while naked from the waist down.

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IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE
The prize offered in a youth sports league raffle in Weaverville, N.C., was an Uzi submachine gun.

SELL YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL RAYS
A company called Eternal Image was awarded a license to manufacture caskets and urns embossed with the logos of all 30 Major League Baseball teams.

URINE. AND YER OUT
In an act captured on cellphone video and widely distributed on the Internet, a man dived into a trough-style urinal at what appears to be Wrigley Field and slid its entire length, headfirst, in the manner of Pete Rose.

NOW WITH MORE LEGROOM (IN CARGO)
After refusing to let her carry on her prosthetic leg, British Airways lost the limb checked by New Zealand Paralympic runner Kate Horan as she traveled to the world championships in the Netherlands.

PLEASE KILL ME NOW
Recreational golfer Tom Kenney took a mulligan after he was unable to find his tee shot on the 370-yard 18th hole at Batavia (N.Y.) Country Club, thus wiping out the hole in one he had just scored.

GEORGES ON MY MIND
Russell Pleasant of Bellevue, Neb., was one of four contestants (out of three million) to correctly pick George Mason to advance to the Final Four against Florida in an ESPN.com pool only because he had the school confused with George Washington.

A BROKEN RECORD THAT SOUNDED LIKE A BROKEN RECORD
After Chicago Crush running back Bob McMillen became the alltime career rushing leader in the Arena Football League, he ran into the stands to give his son the football, only to be thrown for an eight-yard loss two plays later, negating the record, which he wouldn't break again for two weeks.

COCK-A-DOODLE D'OH!
The Philadelphia Phillies thought they had mailed out 4,000 team-highlight DVDs to season-ticket holders, but some of the videos were of cockfights.

IMAGINE THEIR PILLOW TALK
After then Blazers guard Sebastian Telfair was caught with a loaded handgun in his pillowcase on the team's jet, he explained that he had inadvertently grabbed his girlfriend's travel bag and that the gun belonged to her.

PEOPLE IN GLASS STADIUMS ...
In a year in which eight Cincinnati Bengals were arrested -- receiver Chris Henry was busted four times in the last 13 months -- the team set up a hotline (513-381-JERK) for Bengals fans to report unruly behavior by other Bengals fans.

FOOTBALL TEACHES YOU VALUES THAT GO BEYOND THE FIELD
During a bench-clearing football brawl between Miami and Florida International, Hurricanes TV analyst Lamar Thomas, a former Miami receiver, said, "Now that's what I'm talking about... .Why don't they just meet outside in the tunnel after the ball game and get it on some more?"

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