Brent Sapergia, coach for a minor league hockey team, really goes berserk in the this video clip. So much so that a reporter said that “he makes Bobby Knight look like an altar boy”.
After a call works against him and his team, Sapergia throws a little temper tantrum – along with every piece of equipment [...]

Twitter is just out to get everyone in trouble. Or, should I say, it’s master plan is to get us all to shove our collective feet into our mouths so far we’ll have no choice but to tweet our discontent.
The latest Twitter tantrum comes from NFL player Larry Johnson. This is no slip of the [...]

NEW YORK — NBA or Europe, regular referees or replacements, the rules are the same: Two technical fouls is an automatic ejection, and anyone ejected must leave the floor.
Maccabi Tel Aviv wanted a pass on that rule Sunday.
The New York Knicks’ 106-91 victory over the Euroleague team featured a bizarre delay in the third quarter [...]

On March 10, 1999, the day before the #7 seed Gophers were to open the NCAA tournament against #10 Gonzaga, the St. Paul Pioneer Press ran a story detailing allegations of massive academic fraud in the men’s basketball program. Former basketball office manager Jan Gangelhoff had gone to the newspaper claiming she had written over [...]

David Frost, a junior ice hockey coach and NHL Players’ Association agent, is a complete hockey slimeball. He was a nobody until the famous incident in 2004 when player Mike Dalton had a hitman hired to murder Frost. Unfortunately, in addition to the uncomfortable business of having a price on his head, the subsequent [...]

Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl made an agonizingly tasteless joke about the diversity of his team at a small function last Thursday. He was speaking to TVA employees without a prepared speech. Perhaps impromptu comedy isn’t Pearl’s strong point?
“I’ve got a tough job. I’ve got to put these guys from different worlds together, right?” Pearl [...]

University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino told police that he had consensual sex with Karen Cunagin Sypher at a Louisville restaurant where he’d been drinking on Aug. 1, 2003.
He also told police that he later gave Sypher $3,000 to have an abortion, according to Louisville Metro Police reports The Courier-Journal obtained under the [...]

Wikipedia provides this little summary of John Calipari’s little racial slur faux pas. He claimed he meant this as a joke, but if that’s the case, then way to sound like a racist jerk with a bad sense of humor.
While coaching the New Jersey Nets, Calipari referred to Newark Star-Ledger sports reporter Dan Garcia as [...]

Seriously folks, it’s just a game! But don’t tell that to basketball coach John Chaney. Tempers flare again in an all out verbal assault (that nearly turns physical) against John Calipari. Summary of the incident from ESPN’s “Coaches Gone Wild”:
Feb. 13, 1994. After Calipari’s 13th-ranked UMass team beat No. 8 Temple 56-55 in Amherst, Temple [...]

Not all sports jerks are the players. Coaches can be jerks too. Or so Bobby Knight, men’s college basketball coach, shows us. This guy has a long history of letting his temper get the better of him. The best known example, of course, is the chair throwing incident. Luckily, cameras were rolling during that game, [...]