you never know what might happen when it
comes to physical competitions welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
crazy moments in sports though sometimes
it means unbelievable or good for this
list we're defining crazy as shocking
and bad right about here we're Lambert
grav Shumway and now we're focusing on
displays of bad behavior violence and
accidents that simply made our jaws drop
the events could have happened during or
after sporting events as well as away
from play number 10 the World Series
earthquake this tremor struck the San
Francisco Bay Area for 10 to 15 seconds
and was caught live on TV because of the
ongoing World Series the MLB's Oakland
Athletics and San Francisco Giants were
warming up for the third game when the
quake hit and had announcers scrambling
for an explanation
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measuring six point nine on the Richter
scale the Loma Prieta earthquake caused
over 60 deaths and thousands of injuries
it's been a frightening scene here as
you can see just below me is where this
crack in the Bay Bridge occurred a
50-foot section number nine Tim Donaghy
and the NBA betting scandal it was in
2007 that this basketball referee with a
gambling problem shocked the NBA
associating himself with multiple
individuals who were tied to the mob Tim
Donaghy was charged for fixing games to
pay off his debts the gambling scandal
resulted in Donaghy receiving a 15 month
prison sentence for his involvement and
the revision of behavior guidelines for
NBA referees number 8 Clint Millar
Chuck's neck is sliced by a skate luck
was on this alberta native side the day
the st. Louis Blues faced off against
the Buffalo Sabres on March 22nd 1989
that is the
after blues player Steve Tuttle
accidentally slashed the goaltender's
neck with his skate team trainer Jim
Pitts @le rushed to his rescue and
pinched off the bleeding until doctors
arrived 300 stitches and multiple
sickened fans and players later Millar
Chuck came out alive that's right it's
part of the game all right Clint thanks
very much for joining us and good luck
thanks you're number seven on court
attack of Monica Seles tennis is seen as
a civilized sport where fans are pretty
close to the action sometimes maybe too
close after defeating Steffi Graf in the
Australian Open Monica Seles was stabbed
by one of her rivals obsessed fans
during a quarterfinal match in Hamburg
Celes didn't return to the sport
competitively for two years after the
incident a tennis match when this
happened I was doing something that I
loved and I never ever expected
something like this to happen
number six over the edge with Owen Hart
wrestling is part competition part
entertainment so when Owen Hart fell to
his death during this pay-per-view event
many fans wondered if it was part of the
storyline this is not a part of the
entertainment here tonight
their shock and confusion turned to
disbelief and sadness when it became
clear it wasn't before we were going to
walk out I just heard them screaming
saying it's not a fake and a real
amputee back here he's not breathing the
ripcord fail broke or something I don't
know when the safety harness
malfunctioned Hart's chest first plunge
into the top rope had EMTs come running
no footage of the tragedy has ever been
officially released number five the
punch up in pious Donny
during the final game of the 1987 Junior
Championship between Canada and the
Soviet Union in experienced referee Hans
runing failure to make several calls
triggered tension this resulted in a
post faceoff fight between two players
that turned into a violent battle
between both teams to stop it officials
were forced to turn off the arena lights
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the players and coaches involved in the
20-minute bench clearing brawl received
suspensions from the International Ice
Hockey Federation number for the 1994-95
MLB strike it was because of this work
stoppage that the first World Series in
90 years was cancelled and Major League
Baseball lost its entire 1994 postseason
after salary negotiations between
players and team owners took a turn for
the worse the players felt compelled to
strike and the season came to an abrupt
end after several weeks though a Supreme
Court decision 230 two days later
stopped the strike early low attendance
for the 1995 season revealed fans anger
I already know what I'm gonna start
doing I'm gonna start rereading Dante's
Inferno cuz that's where I think they
should send the whole lot of them back
to you number three the play after
future Hall of Famer John Elway led the
Stanford Cardinals offense to what
appeared to be a game-winning touchdown
California's Golden Bears managed to
return the kickoff down the field
meanwhile the Stanford band was storming
the field while the play was still going
on
Kali was ultimately given the victory
albeit a highly disputed one and to this
day the incidents regarded as one of the
sports most memorable plays ever
number two the Limbaugh disaster because
of auto Racing's dangerous nature car
crashes come with the territory this is
huge because you go hit on that TV does
not do that justice that is an
incredible impact hit on those are the
kind of accidents that absolutely are
frightening about the watching however
they seldom have spectator fatalities
unfortunately the 1955 24 hours of
namah' was the site of both Pierre
Levesque died after his Mercedes crashed
into Lance Macklin's car taking over 80
spectators with him those that weren't
killed by flying debris likely perished
in the fire that erupted when the fuel
tank burst wipes out whole families
lhave is killed before his wife's eyes
and some 70 spectators with him among
the bodies frantic survivors seek their
friends before we unveil our number one
pick here are a few honorable mentions
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he's out cold
if you can bear to watch to take a look
but it's a terrible looking injury
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Moises is unhappy with the pans but
voices went into the seats he could have
had that ball a fan interfered with him
number one the hand of God goal it was
in 1986 that the FIFA World Cup was the
stage of the world's biggest game with
the world's biggest football star
Argentina and England faced off in a
match that went down in history because
Diego Maradona scored not one but two of
the sport's most famous goals ever first
was the hand of God goal which he
appeared to score with his hand that
controversial goal was let through
because the refs had not seen it four
minutes later the Argentine footballer
landed the goal of the century when he
dribbled the ball past several English
players by himself
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