Crime In Sports

This week, we finish up this wild story with Steve, getting back into the NHL, only to barely play, and end up unemployed. He fills in this employment gap by going down to Bolivia, and trying to smuggle cocaine into Canada, with a wild & fun excuse. He does his prison time, only to get back into drugs, and end up in more trouble, including running an "escort service" that definitely wasn't legal. All of this, and his sad, pitiful ending!   Keep telling NHL teams that you're ready to stop getting in trouble, tell a judge that you didn't know there was a lot of cocaine, in your shoes, and destroy your body with drugs with Steve "Mental Case" Durbano - Part 2!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.co

This week, we look at a hockey player, who was a little too violent & short tempered, even for hockey. He never had a goal, other than playing hockey, and he achieved that by being drafted in the 1st round. But the only potential he ever lived up to was his potential for violence. He attacked opposing players, fans, coaches, trianers, timekeepers, and even the police! This temper leads to obvious arrests, and a big future of crime, ahead of him!!   Be terrified of your overinvolved father... until you beat him up, use your hockey stick as just an extension of your hand & hit people with it, and tell everyone that you're on your best behavior, then try to start a riot with Steve "Mental Case" Durbano - Part 1!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crim

This week, we look at an absolutely horrible human being, who competed in a sport that we've never talked about! Rock climbing! He was an idol of other climbers, as he made his own routes up mountains, and published several books about climbing. But under the surface, there was a violent sexual predator. He beat women, then threatened them if they dared report it. He sexually attacked women, and stalked them into hiding. He may have even assaulted dozens more, while climbing. Did he get what he deserved??   Compete in a sport, where getting stoned before participating in it seems standard, turn into a different, violent person, with just a pause, and be the menace of an entire region's women with Charles Barrett!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeins

This week, we look at an Autralian football player, who came from hard times, and only made things worse for himself. He was an aggressive player, at a time when it was perfectly acceptable to hurl racial slurs upon a field of play. But none of that holds an answer to why he did the things he did. From a youthful conviction, for a reprehensible crime, to having an ongoing sexual "relationship" with a 14 year old girl, to having enough meth to keep all of Australia hyper, he couldn't have gone more wrong!   Be on a football team with your brother, claim your sexual relationship with a 14 year old was "consensual", and never take a bit of responsibility for anything with Jim Krakouer!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to sh

This week, we look at an MMA fighter, who had it rough & practically raised himself. He was a champion wrestler in high school, but didn't start his MMA career, until after a stint in prison. He also had a stint at Steak & Shake, making getting punched in the face sound like a good option. His career was decent, but he could never get out from under his legal problems. From robbery, to drug charges, to terrible driving, and a horrific alleged attack on his ex-girlfriend, he's a bit of a mess!!   Fight your way out of Steak & Shake, be thrown from a moving motorcycle & almost killed, and make sure to blame anybody but yourself for your problems with Danny Straus!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupa

This week, we finish off this story with Wayne, starting his NFL career, but it doesn't work out quite like he wanted. He's shuffled around the league, even picking up a Super Bowl ring, but always seems to do something to get him on the wrong side of his team, and the law. Most of his legal problems happen at 3 AM. This includes bad driving, a lot of punching, and a horrible accusation, from a young lady, on her graduation night. It all ends with a giant bang, as Wayne's 3 AM problems eventually get the best of him!!   Entertain your teammates, while annoying your coaches, earn a Super Bowl ring, and be accused of a horrible crime, while claiming the whole thing was consenual with Wayne Simmons - Part 2!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.thr

This week, we we start a two parter on a man who came from absolutely nothing, watching his mother cry, because she couldn't provide. This gives him the motivation to work hard enough to be drafted in the NFL, by the Green Bay Packers, but also the motivation to apparently be a huge, violent jerk. He attacks exchange student pizza delivery men, bouncers, people trying to stop him from fighting, and a college girl! And thats's only the beginning. Will he get it together, ort go further downhill?   Have a want to make your mother stop crying, have no idea who any of your teammates are, and beat up peop,e who are much smaller than you with Wayne Simmons - Part 1!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com

This week, we talk about a journeyman NBA player, who managed to stay in the league for over a decade, but never made the impact he wanted. While bouncing around the league, he got in beefs with several players, coaches, another player's mother, and even a high school journalist. But he also had iussues with his own reality star wife, and got publicly dissed by Rhianna. Currently, he has actually turned this all into a very successful podcast venture!!   Think that you're much better than you actually are, fight an opposing team's coach for being with your ex-wife, and always post every thought that you have on social media with Matt Barnes!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS

This week, we find out about an Australian olympian, in a sport that we've never covered, canoeing! He had all the promise in the world, but he also had a need to seemingly try to build a giant drug empire. He is busted many times, including one attempted shipment of cocaine, that had the Australian Navy, giving chase, while bricks of cocaine were hurled overboard. This resulted in massive amounts of cocaine, washing up all up and down the Aussie coastline!!   Get out of the family oyster farming business, buy yourself a boat, under the guise of whale watching, and fling bricks of coke into the Pacific with Nathan Baggaley!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!

This week, we find out about an NFL player, who depended on his speed, but didn't count on being out of the league, just as fast. He started acting strangely. He yelled at coaches & sucker punched a team mate. From there, he quickly goes down hill, off the field, with more strange behavior, which grows increasingly more violent, with arrest, after arrest. Was it mental illness, or head trauma?   Tell everyone that you're a better wide out than Calvin Johnson, climb a fence to try to get your impounded car back, and scare everyone around you, with increasingly erratic, and violent behavior with Titus Young!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!   Contact us o

This week, we finish this epic tale with Billy, trying to live a peaceful "retirement", on a large farm property in upstate New York. It seems like the perfect place, but Billy is bored, and plotting his managerial return to the Yankees. This boredom causes Billy to drink, and fight with his wife, leaving broken glass, and melted ice cream, in their wake. We finally end with Billy's sudden death, and court cases about the details. Even in death, there is drama for Billy!   Buy yourself a 150 acre farm & start feeding the animals, get bored with your farm work, and drink away the cold nights, have even your death be controversial, and of course, alcohol fueled with Billy Martin - Part 11!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com  

This week, we pick up with Billy being arrested, on the front lawn of his girlfriend's house. He's  rehired as the Yankee manager, only to be fired, at the end of the season. But dont worry, he'll be hired & fired, again! He also gets in a four part brawl with one of his own pitchers, and is attacked in a strip club bathroom. He's divorced, remarried, and looking for how to deal with life, when not managing the Yankees!   Fight with your 27 years younger starting pitcher, get sued by bothe the IRS & your soon to be ex-wife, and get fired a couple more times with Billy Martin - Part 10!! Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!   Contact us on... instagram.com/

This week, we find Billy fired, again. He's also living a double life, by getting married to his teenaged girlfriend, but also carrying on an affair, right out in the open, with an attractive photographer. He also gets another job, and is fired. He gets in several fights, including a certain marshmallow salesman, and several others, all while the IRS breathes down his neck. Oh, also gets another job. And is fired. Can Billy ever learn to relax???   Hook up with a sexy photographer, while your wife waits at home, get fired 3 times in 4 years, "quit drinking" by only drinking beer with Billy Martin - Part 9!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!   Contact us on...

This week, we catch up to a triumphant Billy, as he basks in the glow of World Series victory. This, of course, leads him to brutally pummel a reporter, who dared ask a question about a recent Yankee trade. He is forced to resign, only to be rehired, within 2 months. He fights with players, reporters, and one, very angry team owner. He also finds love, with a young lady, who many people believe is only 16 years old!   Beat a reporter into a bloody heap, over minor infractions, be forced to resign, the year after you won the World Series, and continue to cause a scene, and drink heavily, but never "overdrink" with Billy Martin - Part 8!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM

This week, we find Billy Martin at the brink of a triumphant season, that would cement his managerial legacy. The problem is, there's going to be much drama, in the process. From fighting, in the dugout, on national televison, with his star player, to fighting with the team owner, at 2 am, after everyone has had a few cocktails, to causing a scene, by fighting with his wife, during a celebration... Billy is starting to unravel! All of this while NYC expeciences a huge blackout, and The Son of Sam runs rampant!!   Fight your star player, in front of the world, challenge someone who says they have a 160 IQ, and drink, cheat on your wife, and begin to fall apart with Billy Martin - Part 7!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go t

This week, we take a break from our Billy Martin series, to bring you a bonus episode, that is more relevant than ever, right now. Mixing otherwordly talent, with the black cloud of gambling allegations, hanging over head, makes this as crazy a story as we've talked about. Did the greatest talent, in the game of baseball, the modern day face of game, actually commit acts that should have him banned for life, while everyone is happy to blame a lowly interpreter, for everything??? We look into the scandal that surrounded Shohei Ohtani!!   This episode was recorded in April of 2024, and put out as part of our Patreon bonus feed. To get all the bonus eps & ad free versions of all of our podcasts, go to patreon.com/crimeinsports   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO mer

This week, we catch up with Billy, as he is again fired, despite being the league's Manager of the Year. He fights, more & more, with his celebrity getting him out of multiple arrests. But his celebrity doesn't help his attempted cocaine mule of a daughter. He lands his dream gig, as manager of the New York Yankees, only to almost be fired for talking back to the owner. Billy will never learn!   Get fired, even though you're the AL Manager of the Year, call Frank Sinatra & Henry Kissenger to try to get your daughter out of trouble, and start fighting with your new team's owner with Billy Martin - Part 6!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!   Contact us

This week, we follow Billy's exploits, as his teams perform wonderfully, on the field, but it's still not enough to keep him from getting repeatedly fired. Why? Because he fights with team owners, opposing players/managers/fans & umpires. He even beats one of his own players, so badly, that they have to be hospitalized for 20 stitches to their face! Then, he gets arrested for actually doing something admirable! Wild as always!   Take a team from nearly last place, to winning their division... and get fired, lead another team back from the dead... and get fired, then quickly get another job, despite your reputation with Billy Martin - Part 5!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things

This week, Billy starts out on another new team, but that doesn't last long. He bounces around the league, while fighting, and even getting sued by another player, who ended up with a broken orbital bone. As he tries to live down his fighter reputation, he get into even more fights. He even fights a team official, in a hotel lobby. With his playing career over, he also enters the managerial stage of his career.. but he's still ready to punch!!   Spend your last few years in the league, bouncing around with different teams, punch the team's traveling secratary, for a minor provocation, and get sued for a million dollars, because of an on the field fight with Billy Martin - Part 4!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutu

This week, we catch up with Billy, as he is forced back into the Army, missing an entire season of Yankee baseball. He is also labeled as a "troublemaker", and a "bad influence" on teammates like Mickey Mantle, just because they go out drinking, every night, and a major brawl happened to beak out at the Copacabana, at Billy's birthday party! He fights, he scraps, and he gets traded, all over the league!   Watch the Yankees play a whole season, while you're in the Army, fight with your team'sa general manager, and be a bad influence on all of your friends with Billy Martin - Part 3!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!   Contact us on... instagram.com/smalltownm