Who is the biggest douche in sports?

How come Donald Fehr and Scott Boras haven't been mentioned yet?

 

EStreetJoe - Until MLB owners grow a set and actually unite like the NHL owners did to break the union, what has Fehr done to be called a 'db'? Fehr represents his membership much better than Gene Upshaw or Billy Hunter because he's a man of principal and a foundation. I don't think Fehr cares if 25-50% of his membership never have a chance to win a World Series title so long as they have a great salary, benefits, and a pension.

 

coaches who are asses to deal with: saban, belichick, knight.

athletes who are asses to deal with: Bonds, easily No. 1; moss; owens; bonds; schilling; ivan rodriguez; joey porter, vince carter, antawn jamison.

media douches: just mariotti and albom.

 

Although Fehr has been great for the players' union. The labor strife and strikes his hard-line positions have caused have been bad for the game of baseball. Not to mention his stance for so many years against drug testing.

 

more from the media:
Lupica and Jim Rome

 

I've only covered two of the names regularly on the current list -- Knight and Thomas. I guess this comes down to what douche standard one has.

Knight was a total and complete grandstanding dickflarb to the media who had some semblence of high integrity (in areas of his own choosing, anyway) away from his coverage.

Thomas was, for the most part, charming with the media when I covered him, but who had zero semblence of intergrity away from the media.

As much as I detest Thomas, I voted for Knight because the infuriating thing about Knight is that the semblence of integrity he displays off the court -- such as holding his student-athletes to a high standard -- is trumped by his utter inability to live up to that integrity himself when it comes to dealing with others. He picks spots with his integrity, so really, how much integrity does he really have?

Thomas has no integrity to start with, so when he shows his "good" side, anyone with a heightened sense of bullshit (as I like to think I do), realizes he's oilier than the oiliest oil slick on the old Spy Hunter arcade game.

 

Have you ever met Jim Rome? If you don't like his radio persona, that's fine... But, he's a great guy, nothing like his radio schtick, even though I enjoy his show as well...

Lupica, on the other hand, is a complete and total douche... So is Albom...

 

The fact that there's a PS2 version is pure blasphemy.

 

Amen to Lupica. Can't say about Albom, but I believe it. Rome's persona is just on-air schtick. He does a lot of motivational speaking (I know this doesn't necessarily make him a good guy, but he does try to reach out to the less fortunate in this and other ways) and has matured considerably since his Jim "Chrissy" Everett days. He used to be a dick, but he's a pretty decent guy these days. I mean, he's no Jim Lampley.

As far as T.O., he was the ONLY guy who tried to make a play on the ball at the end of the Cowboys' debacle last night. And he stayed longer to try and console Romo, too. T.O. has a ton of problems, as we all know, but he's not the monster he's often made out to be.

 

RokSki - I'll grant T.O. is a soft monster to us but internally, he has a monster with a time bomb just ticking to go off.

 

Mike Jarvis. Friggin' Mike Jarvis, though I guess he (thankfully) can't be considered too active. Jackass.

 

Wow, old Al Davis doesn't even get a mention?