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The most scandalous sports scandals involve anything from 20,000 women to 15 back bites to a condom-littered boat
Here are the Top 5 sports scandals that have happened in the world of sports.
5. WILT CHAMBERLAIN
Chamberlain's claim that he had slept with 20,000 women in his lifetime wasn't so much a scandal. Heck, some consider it an accomplishment. If Chamberlain was telling the truth, that averages out to 1.2 women per day from when he was 15 years old to the day he died.
4. MARV ALBERT
The Basketball Hall of Fame broadcaster temporarily lost his job in 1997 when he went on trial for felony charges of forcible sodomy. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after DNA tests showed he bit his accuser 15 times on the
back. The accuser also said Albert had a penchant for wearing women's underwear and participating in threesomes with another male.
3. EUGENE ROBINSON
On the morning on Jan. 30, 1999, the Atlanta Falcons safety accepted the Bart Starr Award for being the NFL player who best exemplifies character. That night, an undercover police officer arrested him after he offered her $40 to perform oral sex on him. And oh yeah, the next day was Super Bowl XXXIII, where Robinson's Falcons were playing the Denver Broncos.
2. GOLD CLUB SCANDAL
Never before were so many prominent athletes involved in one sex scandal. In a lawsuit against the owner of an Atlanta strip club, athletes such as basketball player
Patrick Ewing and baseball player Andruw Jones were subpoenaed to testify about their experiences at the club. Ewing, Jones and a number of other athletes admitted to receiving sexual favors in the club.
1. MINNESOTA VIKINGS LOVE BOAT
Seventeen members of the 2005 Minnesota Vikings rented two boats on an off-weekend and flew in prostitutes for the occasion, but apparently they forgot to clean up afterwards. They returned the boats, which were littered with used condoms, K-Y jelly and sex toys. The players were caught the next morning when a woman called 9-1-1 as she watched seven of them urinate in her yard.
Former Kansas basketball player Wilt Chamberlain claimed he slept with 20,000 women in his life.
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