10 Sports People Who Had a Worse Week Than You

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Date: 10/15/2013

Towards the end of the U.S./Panama game on Tuesday night, we had pretty much already penciled Mexico's national soccer team into this slot. They had just lost 2-1 to Costa Rica, and with Panama leading the U.S. 2-1, it was looking like they were going to miss out on qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. But then, miraculously, the U.S. scored two goals in stoppage time to win the match against Panama and help Mexico advance to a playoff against New Zealand for a spot in the World Cup. And in the process, the U.S. eliminated Panama's chances and broke the hearts of an entire nation. After hearing that, how can you possibly think your week was bad?

Date: 10/18/2013

Everybody knows that carrying a loaded gun through an airport is a big no-no, right? Um, right? Apparently not, because the 11-time NBA champion was arrested at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport this week for possessing a loaded .38-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol. Fortunately, it doesn't sound like it's going to result in any jail time for Russell. But what in the world was he thinking?!

Date: 10/15/2013

Back in 1996, Page was named the MVP of the Big East Tournament-despite the fact that he played on the same team as Allen Iverson. But his life has turned out much differently than AI's did. Last week, we found out that Page has been arrested more than 30 times in the last three years. Furthermore, he just got arrested for assaulting a woman for the fourth time (he punched and stabbed her repeatedly during a recent fight) and was sentenced to 10 years behind bars. And when the Washington Times sent a writer to interview him in prison about where his life went wrong, he refused to speak to him without being paid for his time. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Date: 10/15/2013

The Indianapolis Colts owner spent the week leading up to tonight's Denver Broncos/Colts game having a one-sided beef with his former quarterback Peyton Manning. First, he did an interview with USA Today Sports and seemed to call Manning out for his lack of playoff success with the Colts. "You make the playoffs 11 times," he said, "and you're out seven out of 11 times." Then, he revealed that Manning was the one who convinced him to release him in early 202 and draft Andrew Luck with the No. 1 pick in the 2012 NFL Draft (ESPN's Chris Mortensen disputed that report and got into a short Twitter beef with Irsay). And then, he attempted to backtrack off everything he had said once the media turned the heat up on him. We can't imagine it was the way he envisioned the week leading up to the Broncos/Colts game playing out.

Date: 10/13/2013

Just two days before Mushnick wrote a column called "Son's death doesn't make Adrian Peterson a great guy," Adrian Peterson's 2-year-old son died as a result of being abused by his mother's boyfriend. Two days! And yet, Mushnick took the first possible opportunity to take a swing at Peterson by calling out his character in a scathing column that essentially blamed him for his own son's death. "With his resources," Mushnick wrote, "how could Peterson, the NFL's MVP, have allowed his son to remain in such an environment? Did he not know, or not care? Or not care to know? Or not know to care?" How do you even sit down and write those words TWO DAYS AFTER SOMEONE'S SON DIES?! Not cool. Not cool at all.

Date: 10/16/2013

It's hard to get rid of a bad reputation. And unfortunately, the Detroit Lions defensive end is finding that out the hard way right now. Suh was hit with a whopping $31,500 fine late Wednesday for a hit that he made on Cleveland Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden last Sunday. It would have been all well and good if Suh actually deserved the fine. But after watching his hit on Weeden, like, 50 times, we still don't know why the league fined Suh. So the only thing we can do is chalk it up to the bad reputation Suh has earned during his relatively short time in the league.

Date: 10/13/2013

The Houston Texans quarterback injured his right ankle during last week's blowout loss to the St. Louis Rams and won't play today against the Kansas City Chiefs. But that's not why his week sucked. Rather, it was a disappointing week because, after Schaub got hurt last week, there were some Texans fans who actually cheered. So Schaub and his teammates had to spend the first half of the week answering questions about the fans' behavior and, worse, chastising the fans for cheering his injury. "I'd hate to think anyone out there, regardless of who was injured-on our team, the visiting team, whatever the situation is-that people would be like that and act that way," Schaub said on Monday. "There's no place for that in this game." There isn't. But that didn't stop fans from cheering and ruining Schaub's week.

Date: 10/16/2013

From his long stint on the disabled list to the 211-game suspension that Major League Baseball handed him due to his connection to the Biogenesis doping clinic, it's been a bad year overall for A-Rod. But things managed to get even worse for him this week when the details of a new book called House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, The World's Most Powerful Address were released. In the book, author Michael Gross writes about how A-Rod enjoys hiring prostitutes in twos and bringing them back to his building in New York City. "He got hookers all the time," a building worker told Gross. "Usually two at a time, two times a week. One time he had two go up, they came down and left, and 10 minutes later, Cameron Diaz walks in." Yikes. Rodriguez's publicist denies the claim. But at this point, does anyone believe anything A-Rod says?

Date: 10/13/2013

Just hours after the Patriots shocked the Saints with a stunning comeback, the Boston Red Sox mounted a comeback of their own to stun the Detroit Tigers in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series. And it came at the expense of Tigers closer Benoit. After the Red Sox, who were down 5-1 at the time, managed to load the bases in the bottom of the eighth inning with two outs, Tigers manager Jim Leyland brought Benoit into the game to try and get Boston slugger David Ortiz out.

But instead of getting him out, Benoit threw his first pitch down the middle of the plate and paid the price for it. Ortiz hit a line-drive grand slam to right field, and the Red Sox ended up winning the game 6-5 in the bottom of the ninth inning. So rather than heading back home with a comfortable 2-0 series lead, Benoit's blunder helped make it 1-1 and, eventually, the Red Sox went on to win the series 4-2.

Date: 10/13/2013

With just 73 seconds remaining in the New Orleans Saints/New England Patriots game last Sunday, the Saints were sitting pretty. They had a 27-23 lead, the Patriots had no timeouts remaining, and the Saints had the Pats pinned on their own 30-yard line. But then, Tom Brady led New England on an incredibly improbable drive that ended with rookie wide receiver Kenbrell Thompkins catching a touchdown pass with five seconds left on the clock. And Saints defensive coordinator Rob Ryan was not happy about it. His reaction to the TD led to a GIF that's going to be used for many years to come.