Finally, some good news for steroid addicts: it seems that the “hard” stuff has no affect on tear ducts! In an interview with Bob Costas last night, retired baseball slugger Mark McGwire tearfully admitted what we all already knew: the skin on his neck is grafted from a burn victim he was on ‘roids for the majority of his career, including his 1998 single-season home run record-setting season.
Mark hit the apology circuit in preparation for his debut as the St. Louis Cardinals hitting coach next month, and while the whole thing smacks of a very carefully crafted public relations blitz, the key element might actually have been genuine: Big Mac’s waterworks. As any 10-year-old kid, cheating spouse, or female driver can tell you, an apology will only get you so far, but an apology with tears can get you out of almost any predicament (with an emphasis on the “almost”). And for athletes that goes for everything from rape and assault charges to using performance enhancing drugs to cheat. We take a look back at those athletes who cried it out in an attempt to extract themselves from the stickiest of situations…
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Oh how quickly the tables have turned for Alex Rodriguez. Formerly the black sheep of baseball due to his steroid use, A-Rod now has a key to the city after helping the Bronx Bombers bring home their 27th championship ring. Besides retooling his public image, it seems Mr. Bitchtits has learned how to put a decent outfit together.
His look at the Knicks/Cavs game last week exuded a bit of effortless style. He kept it casual with nice denim, a bomber jacket, and a gray sweater. Then he added a touch of sophistication with the scarf and, for some reason, a fedora. It’s the first time he’s been worthy of a Complex style post (clap for him!). And since we still think he looks corny in anything but a baseball uniform, we also broke down A-Rod’s on field Yankee uni for all you true blue baseball fans. See below to check out how you can clean up like A-Rod…
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Detroit’s new mayor in his younger days.
Yesterday came the news that Detroit had elected a new mayor, former Pistons star and NBA Hall of Famer Dave Bing (Bing’s replacing D-Town’s “Hip-Hop Mayor” Kwame Kilpatrick, who kept it a little too real and landed himself in the bing). Bing’s not even the first former NBA star to be elected mayor in the past year; former Suns All-Star Kevin Johnson was tapped to run his hometown of Sacramento last fall.
But why limit potential athlete-mayors to their hometowns or the cities where they played? We’ve selected five off-the-beaten path cities and assigned them to the pro athletes we think would be their best chief executives…
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Has anyone got past second base with A-Rod?
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse for Alex Rodriguez comes the news that—according to a new book from Selena Roberts—A-Rod’s Yankee teammates nicknamed the juiced-up slugger “Bitch Tits.” Wowwww. Now we really can’t wait for his first at-bat at Fenway.
Still, Alex is hardly the first man to be afflicted with tetas grande. We milked the historical archives of man-titties to find A-Rod’s breast friends. Now let’s take a trip down (male) mammary lane, shall we?
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A-Rod knows there’s no “i” in “team,” but there sure is one in “liar”!
All athletes lie. They’re tortured by losses; the weed/coke/gun/child porn wasn’t theirs; they didn’t know it was illegal to drink a bottle of tequila and drive over a pedestrian; getting punched in the face by a teammate brought everyone together. Nobody is surprised by little white lies like these because they’re so common, but sometimes athletes get caught in the BIG ONES.
Starting with New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez’s shocking steroid revelations, this week has been a non-stop parade of athlete scandals thanks to the exposure of half truths and outright lies. Revisit the ugly truth with Complex and decide who is this week’s most offensive liar…
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Wow. We haven't seen this many douche bags in one room since college frat parties. In attempt to promote Guitar Hero: World Tour, which hits stores on Sunday, director Brett Ratner got Alex Rodriguez, Michael Phelps, Tony Hawk and Kobe Bryant together for this Risky Business-style commercial. The promo features the rich-as-shit foursome playing music in pink button-ups and their underwear (except for vocalist Kobe, who was too shy and rocked some b-ball shorts instead).
The Pink Ladies, as we like to call them, will probably generate crazy buzz for the game, but really…could they have assembled more of an obnoxious cock-boy band? If you're like us, you probably hate each one for a different reason. Watch the video below, than vote in our poll to decide who’s the biggest douche of the bunch. Hating on a Friday, gotta love it…
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