Photos: Disgraced sports stars
Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee who became one of the biggest names in Track and Field, is being charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)
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Be it breaking the law, adulterous affair, drug doping or major scandal, these are just a few of our popular sports heroes who have fallen from grace with near epic failures.
Public image crumbled when Tiger’s marriage fell apart due mostly to his multiple infidelity issues. (Mike Blake/Reuters)
National Football League great O.J. Simpson was tried for murder following the June 1994 brutal deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman. At the end of a sensational trial, Simpson was acquitted. (Al Diaz/AFP/Getty Images)
Major League Baseball great, his career is currently shrouded in illegal steroid use and constant lying. (Mike Cassese/Reuters)
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Confesses to blood doping and is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. (Nathalie Magniez /AFP/ Getty Images )
Marion Jones was once considered the fastest woman alive. The
In 2005, Jose Canseco implicates others and admits to using steroids himself in a tell-all book. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
The former Notre Dame captain and Heisman Trophy runner-up was victim of a “very elaborate, very sophisticated hoax” in which Te’o was made to believe he had an online girlfriend who died of leukemia. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune)
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Pete Rose revealed in 2007 that he bet on the Cincinnati Reds “every night” while he was manager of the team. Rose accepted a lifetime ban for gambling in 1989, but denied for nearly 15 years that he bet on baseball. He finally acknowledged in his latest autobiography, published in January 2004, that he made baseball wagers while he managed the Cincinnati Reds. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images ; Caption by ESPN)