1. American Sports & Government Oversight

3. Boxing & the Battle Royal (1865) Battles Royal often appeared on the undercard of boxing matches These fights would normally involve five or six slaves fighting blindfolded and bare-knuckled

4. Birth of Pro Football (1892) The date was November 12, 1892 one of the AAA players, William (Pudge) Heffelfinger, was openly paid $500 to play it is appropriately referred to today as "pro football's birth certificate"

5. Teddy Roosevelt & College Football (1906) As originally played on college campuses, the game was extremely rough Quite a number of players died The American Football Rules Committee was formed in 1906

6. Jim Thorpe & the Olympics (1912) At the age of 25 he was competing for the United States at the Stockholm Olympic Games in 1912 Thorpe had received $25 per week to play minor league baseball

7. Chicago Black Sox (1919) Throughout the 1920 season, the newspapers questioned the legitimacy of the Series Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned the eight implicated players for life

8. NASCAR & Bootlegging (1919-1933) By the 1930s, bootleggers were running corn whiskey out of the foothills of Appalachia When they were carrying a heavy load of Mason jars full of liquor, the car would not sag

9. College Basketball & Points Shaving (1951) Henry Poppe and Jack Byrnes plus three fixers were booked on bribery and conspiracy charges Manhattan lost games by the point margin to Siena, Santa Clara and Bradley

10. NCAA Death Penalty (1953) It has only been implemented five times The first time was in 1953 against the University of Kentucky men’s basketball program

11. Title IX (1972) Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 is the landmark legislation that bans sex discrimination in schools, whether it be in academics or athletics

12. The Dowd Report (1989) The 225-page report was prepared by Special Counsel to the Commissioner, John M. Dowd The most controversial conclusion of the report was confirmed fifteen years later

13. Olympic Skating Scandals (1994 & 2002) It was alleged that Tonya Harding might have been part of the conspiracy to hurt Nancy At the 2002 Winter Olympics, the Canadians skated perfectly in their long program, but the Russians made a mistake

14. Steroids in Baseball (Current) The "Mitchell Report" is the result of former United States Senator George J. Mitchell's 20-month investigation into the use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) in Major League Baseball (MLB)