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Did anyone out there have a worse week than Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Richie Incognito? Anyone at all? We highly doubt it. This guy got suspended indefinitely by his team for allegedly bullying his teammate Jonathan Martin. Then, he got accused of doing everything from rubbing his genitals on a volunteer at a golf tournament last year to holding offensive linemen meetings at strip clubs. And the worst part of all is that the saga surrounding him and Martin isn't anywhere close to over! He probably has at least one or two more bad weeks ahead of him before his life can return to some semblance of normalcy. So there's no way that anyone out there possibly had a worse week than he did.
There are some other athletes who had bad weeks, though. None of their weeks can compare to Incognito's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. But their weeks will still make you feel pretty good about whatever bad things happened to you over the last seven days. Just check out the 10 Sports People (Besides Richie Incognito) Who Had a Worse Week Than You…
Josh Huff
Date: 11/7/2013
During Oregon's loss to Stanford on Thursday night, TV cameras caught the wide receiver crying on the sideline. Yes, crying. On national TV. CRYING ON NATIONAL TV! Richie Incognito might not have a lot going for him at the moment, but at least he wasn't caught crying about it at any point, right?
Marcus Mariota
Date: 11/7/2013
A week ago, Mariota was widely regarded as the best quarterback in college football. He was the odds-on favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. He was projected to go No. 1 in the 2014 NFL Draft by some draft experts. And it appeared as though he was going to lead Oregon to the BCS National Championship in January. But on Thursday night, Mariota and the Ducks lost to Stanford, which ended their title hopes and, in all likelihood, destroyed Mariota's chances to win the Heisman. Some people are also questioning his NFL potential now. And maybe worst of all, Oregon revealed that Mariota sustained an MCL injury sometime prior to the Stanford game. Could things have gone any worse for this guy over the last seven days?
William Hayes
Date: 11/3/2013
Remember when Amar'e Stoudemire punched a fire extinguisher and screwed his hand up right in the middle of a playoff series? Hayes, a defensive end for the St. Louis Rams, did something similar after a loss to the Titans last weekend. He got into a fight with a mirror in the team's locker room after leaving the field-and lost. He sliced part of his forearm open during the altercation and needed to get stitches. "The mirror was in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said later. "I kind of took it a little overboard. Emotions came out and got the best of me." Uh, ya think?
Tony Dorsett
Date: 11/6/2013
Dorsett got some of the worst news of his life last week. After undergoing three months' worth of brain scans and clinical evaluations, the NFL Hall of Famer was told that he has CTE. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, CTE is an incurable, degenerative brain condition that can cause things like depression and dementia. And Dorsett, who admits that he has suffered with memory loss, depression, and a short temper in recent years, is fearing the worst. It's such a sad story and, unfortunately, it could get even sadder for Dorsett as he moves forward.
Gary Kubiak
Date: 11/3/2013
The life of an NFL head coach is stressful. Very, very, very, very, very stressful. Just ask Texans coach Gary Kubiak. During the Colts/Texans game last Sunday night, he felt light-headed just before halftime and collapsed on the field. He had to be taken to a local hospital, and it was later revealed that Kubiak had suffered what is called a transient ischemic attack, which is often referred to as a "warning stroke." He's going to be OK. But it was a scary experience for Kubiak and he's going to have to take some time off to make sure that he's not putting his health at risk for the sake of football.
Park Eun-seon
Date: 11/6/2013
Park, who plays for the Seoul City Amazones in the WK-League in South Korea, just finished one of the best seasons of her career. She scored 19 goals and led Seoul City to a second-place finish. So things should be looking up for her, right? Right. Except they're not because some of the players on the other WK-League clubs think that she is actually a he. They accused Park of lying about her gender for the last decade and taking part in women's leagues and women's soccer competitions like the World Cup despite the fact that she is actually a man. Park is said to be "humiliated" by the claim (obviously!), and she revealed that she has been facing questions about her gender for years now this week. "I know these people are trying to destroy me," she wrote on her Facebook page. "In the past, I would have thrown my hands up and left, but I've worked so hard to get to this point, and I will not give up so easily." She has been gender tested in the past and proven that she is a female. What more can she do?
Marco Belinelli
Date: 11/3/2013
You have more game than Belinelli. Yes, YOU. While he's not the first pro athlete to get caught trying to kick game to a chick on Twitter, he did come with one of the lamest lines of all time last Sunday when he sent a direct message to one of his followers. "Wanna see something big to eat?" he wrote. "Something long and think to eat! Lol." Lol is right, bro. That's the best line you could come up with?! That girl was 100 percent right for exposing the weak game you were kicking.
Tyson Chandler
Date: 11/5/2013
Is the Knicks' 2013-14 season already doomed?! It sure seems like it right now. Their owner James Dolan has reportedly been upset with the way the team has started off the season. Carmelo Anthony had to resort to calling a players' only meeting after a home loss to the Bobcats. And the Knicks are going to have to spend the next four to six weeks without Chandler patrolling the paint for them. He fractured his right fibula and will have to sit on the sideline for at least a month while it heals. All of that could spell disaster for Chandler and the Knicks.
Anthony Bennett
Date: 11/4/2013
No one is ready to call the former UNLV star a "bust" just yet. But the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NBA Draft has been super underwhelming for the Cavaliers so far this season. He didn't score during the first three games of the year for Cleveland. He also didn't record a made basket until the Cavs' fifth game (he did manage a couple of free throws in the fourth game to break into the scoring column). And this week, he announced that he will not be using Twitter for awhile because of his bad start to the season. "Going ghost for a bit," he wrote in a since-deleted tweet, "think it's be best for me at this point." Whatever gets you going, man. But the Cavs' fans aren't going to be able to take too many more goose eggs on the stat sheet.
Aaron Rodgers
Date: 11/4/2013
Rodgers went into the Monday Night Football game last week looking to move his Packers to 6-2 on the season and solidify their stranglehold on the NFC North lead. Instead, he fractured his collarbone on the Packers' first drive of the game and is going to miss the better part of the next month while it heals. The good news is that he will be back before the end of the season. But in the meantime, the Packers will have to rely on Seneca Wallace at quarterback to try and keep pace with the Bears and the Detroit Lions in the division. Come to think of it, who had the worse week: Rodgers or the Packers fan base? Either way, they're both in for a long November.
