Hey mouthbreather. By the way, I love this OP.
Hmm, I think I’ll go with the executive path
Pete Rozelle
George Steinbrenner
One of the Olympic head honchos, either Avery Brundige or whoever replaced him
Vince Lombardi
and, I’m pretty sure. . .
Secretariat
Dammit uberDave, how the hell did you get that one? I would have never come up with that. You’re not cheating, are you? 
If not, kickass answers so far.
Here’s the correct ones so far:
[ul]
[li]Muhammad Ali – stripped of his title for draft dodging[/li][li]OJ – arrested for murder[/li][li]1980 US Hockey Team – gold medal[/li][li]Joe Namath – 1969 Superbowl[/li][li]Secretariat – triple crown winner[/li][/ul]
(this list includes kunilou’s guesses too. – Hard question, I told you guys…)
Damn! I have to type faster. uberDave, I salute you.
Don Larsen
Sugar Ray Leonard
I can’t believe you got me interested in this post… me, a 26 years old female… good job, keep going guys, because I certainly have no clue… (However I knew about Secretariat from another trivia)
Tigger Woods?
Arnold Palmer?
Jack Nicklaus?
No, not cheating here, I promise
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Munich Olympics 1972 and the hostages
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Mexico City Olympics. The two black sprinters (wish I could remember their names) raising their fists on the medal podium
Hmmm…
Since you said one of my guesses was close, I’ll go with Brandi Chastain, in her (in)famous sportsbra pose.
Whoever finally sailed a balloon around the world
(that did happen finally last year, right?)
The Yankees
(probably last year.)
Barry Bonds
Nadia, perfect 10
Kerri Strug, 96 olympic gold
Ted Turner?
America’s Cup team the year we first lost it?
Mike Tyson?
Shula & the '72 Dolphins?
I’m throwing stuff at you cuz I’ve gotta leave in 20 minutes. I’d hate to stay late at work cuz I’m overenthralled with SDMB.
Mary Lou Retton in the '84 Olympics?
Ding ding ding!
This is the only correct one since the last list update. (and one of two that I am not clear of the event. I’m pretty sure it’s when he won a grand slam?)
The updated list:
[ul]
[li]Muhammad Ali – stripped of his title for draft dodging[/li][li]OJ – arrested for murder[/li][li]1980 US Hockey Team – gold medal[/li][li]Joe Namath – 1969 Superbowl[/li][li]Secretariat – triple crown winner[/li][li]Jack Nicklaus (grand slam winner?)[/li][/ul]
and jk, you’re very warm, but just a little off.
Wilt Chamberlain?
Kareem Abdul Jabar?
Maybe whoever said they’d played ball with around 15,000 women should have been “on the covers.”
Thanks, mouthbreather.
That was fun, will check back tomorrow.
Cheers.
Along the lines of the “sports bureaucrats”, Peter Ueberoth (sp?) from the '84 L.A. Olympics.
Also, maybe Reggie Jackson (say, the Series he hit three home runs in a single game). Of course, it would’ve had to have been a slow news week
Was it the USA Basketball Dream Team 1992 version?
Greg LeMond?
Nolan Ryan?
OK, let’s see who can guess about women’s soccer before JK posts again…
Mia Hamm
And speaking of women,
Billie Jean King (or BJK with Bobby Riggs)
Dorothy Hamill
Peggy Fleming
Howard Cosell
Joe Schlabotnik
Arthur Ashe
Al Davis
Kurt Warner
Dennis Miller