Just because someone's an athlete doesn't necessarily mean they're in superhuman shape. You ever watch your dad bowl? There are a number of athletes who look a little more like armchair athletes than the sports stars you'd expect. These great athletes are not in the best shape.
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Basketball stars get ridiculously rich. It's the American way. But these ballers struggled with their finances, and found themselves far from the one percent.
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High-speed action and bodies in motion, plus the intense emotions of everything in sports makes mishaps like these all too common.
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If two teammates don't gel in sports, all that stress can result in some seriously epic feuds. Here are some of the biggest enemies in sports history.
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These athletes got in trouble over cell phone videos.
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These sports stars died right when they were hitting the top of their game.
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If you're into sports, there's nothing like watching a game. But sometimes that love of sports can go too far.
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For the most part, wrestlers only fight in the ring. Backstage everyone is friendly. But wrestlers are human, and occasionally they fight in real life.
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Just how many superstars of wrestling have been pinned by financial ruin over the years?
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Sports interviews are repetitive and annoying, and some athletes don't handle it well. Here are interviews that athletes walked out of.
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Mixed martial arts is a violent sport. Obviously people are going to get hurt. But at the end of the day, it's a contest of skill between professional fighters.
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Athletes: Perhaps they are our greatest natural resource. But they're still human, and they die. Here are sports stars both young and old that left us in 2018.
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Growing up, we were always told to be good sports, because it's not about winning or losing, but how you play the game. Then, of course, we turned on our TVs and saw rich, successful, hyper-competitive professional athletes act like poor sports and still get paid.
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Whether they're still playing or have since retired, these basketball stars are really weird people off the court.
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Some sports stars leave the sports world and get regular jobs, that people like us might have. Here are ex-professional sports stars who now work regular jobs.
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If competitive sports are an amusement park, racing is the janky Tilt-A-Whirl in the corner that looks like death.
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You probably don't remember much about the sports world in your first moments after leaving your mother, but these athletes were the best the year you were born
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These respected athletes have done terrible things, but society just kinda forgets about the bad times.
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These athletes sadly died while competing in the Olympics.
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These are the worst fans who screwed up sporting events.
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These crimes were actually committed at the Olympics. It isn't always the big smorgasbord of international harmony it's cracked up to be.
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Athletes have cheated in the Olympics in all kinds of tricky and clever ways. And these are just the ones we know about...
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These athletes lost all their money, sometimes going broke as soon as they left their sport.
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Some people never stop pushing the adrenaline envelope -- or, rather, they stop very abruptly. These daredevils lost their lives in insane stunts.
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You've probably always believed these false things about the Olympic Games. Blame it on your non-historian parents.
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This is what the first Olympics were really like. Ancient Greeks were a different beast.
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