10 Sports People Who Had a Worse Week Than You

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Date: 12/15/2013

During the Bengals/Steelers game last Sunday night, the Cincinnati punter took a HUGE hit from Pittsburgh linebacker Terence Garvin on a punt return. The result? A fractured jaw, a cracked vertebrae, and a severely bruised ego. The hit was later ruled illegal by the NFL, which said that a flag should have been thrown on the play (it resulted in an Antonio Brown touchdown). But something tells us that didn't make Huber's jaw, neck, or back feel any better this week.

Date: 12/15/2013

Did you play against the Chiefs running back in fantasy last week? If so, we have just one word for you: SORRY! Charles scored five touchdowns against the Raiders, racked up almost 200 yards receiving, and single-handedly killed the playoff hopes and dreams of millions of fantasy football players in the process. If you were one of those players, have fun doing something other than checking your fantasy scores this weekend!

Date: 12/19/2013

When the Cubs heralded shortstop was just 15, his father signed an agreement with a baseball school called Mi Futuro Biliguer (My Future Big Leaguer) in the Dominican Republic. As part of that agreement, Castro's father said that his son would give the school three percent of all of his future earnings. So late this week, Castro reportedly had about $3.6 million seized from several bank accounts in order to pay the school. He did sign a seven-year, $60 million contract extension with the Cubs last year, so he's got plenty of cash left. But losing $3.6 million is still no joke.

Date: 12/18/2013

Knicks fans hate Bargnani right now. And as we said on Thursday, we can't even blame them. The former Raptors forward has played a part in quite a few painfully bad losses for the Knicks this season. But he outdid himself on Wednesday night against the Bucks when he took what is easily one of the worst shots in NBA history. Seriously, we're not even being dramatic here. Go watch the shot for yourself and see how Bargnani almost blew an overtime win for the Knicks.

Date: 12/21/2013

Can the Brooklyn Nets 2013-14 season get any worse?! On Saturday, the Nets announced that they will be without Lopez for the remainder of the season. He broke his right foot this week—the same right foot that held him out for the majority of last year. There's also the chance that this could turn into a recurring problem for Lopez and that his best days with the Nets could be behind him. What a bummer.

Date: 12/15/2013

Which of these guys had a worse week? Hmmm…It's hard to choose. Romo threw not one, but two interceptions in the fourth quarter of a game against the Packers last Sunday and essentially cost his team a win (which, by the way, is nothing new). And Bryant walked off the field before that game was over, got killed by the media afterwards, and then blamed his early departure on the fact that he didn't want anyone to see him crying on the sidelines. Can we call this one a draw? Yeah, let's do that. If these guys don't get a win today, it's going to get ugly in Dallas.

Date: 12/15/2013

Last Sunday night, Drummond—a diehard Caps fan—enjoyed watching an overtime thriller that ended with her team beating the Flyers in a shootout. Sounds good, right? Er, yeah, except for the fact that Drummond got hit in the head with a hockey puck in the third period, was knocked unconscious, and then spent the remainder of the game watching with a big gash in the side of her head. Fortunately, she got stitched up later and is going to be fine. But that doesn't sound like the fan experience she was looking for when she bought tickets to the game.

Date: 12/17/2013

Even though the Eagles are on the brink of clinching a playoff berth, one of their fans is apparently so unhappy with his team right now that he tried to auction off his allegiance to the Eagles on eBay this week. In his description for the auction, he said that he had had enough suffering and wanted someone to buy his allegiance so that he could start cheering for a winner. His plan didn't work, though, as eBay shut down his auction. So it sounds like he's stuck with the Eagles. Ugh.

Date: 12/17/2013

On Wednesday night, the Salukis lost to Murray State 73-65. And after the game, their head coach Barry Hinson was pissed. He was so pissed that he went on a rant during his postgame press conference and called out his players for their poor play. "Our guards are awful," he said at one point, before ripping his big men later. "My wife—MY WIFE—can score more than two buckets on 11 shots because I know my wife will at least shot fake one time!"

As you would imagine, that postgame press conference got played over and over and over and over and over on sports blogs and SportsCenter and put the Southern Illinois basketball program—and its players—under the microscope. Just what you guys wanted for Christmas, right?

Date: 12/19/2013

If Cruz was healthy enough to play against the Lions today, he would need just two yards to achieve his third consecutive 1,000-yard season and get some bonus money. But unfortunately, Cruz injured his knee during the Giants' 23-0 loss to the Seahawks last week and won't be able to play today. So there will be no 1,000-yard season for him—and no reliable wide receiver on the field for the G-Men.