First of all Michael Phelps,  you are a world class athlete.  Secondly, you are a world class bonehead.  If you are going to be taking a “bong hit” or whatever you want to call it.  Do it somewhere private.  How dumb do you have to be to do this at some party where every person [...]

We don’t usually qualify fans as Sports Boneheads, but in this case – it counts. Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldn’t wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the team’s playoff victory Saturday, a man restrained the boy for an hour with tape and taped the jersey onto him. Are you kidding me here?  We [...]

Did a Hamlet play break out on the tennis court during the Davis Cup? Investigations are underway that German tennis player Tommy Haas was poisoned before his match against Mikhail Youzhny of Russia! Haas had to leave his match with what looked like a stomach virus, but a German teammate was told by a Russian [...]

I can’t decide whether this is hilarious, disgusting, sad, or all of the above, but it certainly earns a place on the bonehead pages — a Colorado high school coach from Monument Academy is standing trial for repeated offenses of hitting kids — in the groin. Twenty-nine-year-old Greg Burr has been accused of jacking 9 [...]

Well this is something you don’t see every day — someone being fined for not trying hard enough! Russian tennis player Nikolay Davydenko was fined $2000 for lack of effort during a match he lost Thursday against Marian Cilic. Davydenko was the top seed, and he dominated the first set, winning 6-1. He lost the [...]

We’ve come across several incidents in the past couple weeks where players were dismissed from the college team or suspended due to a violation of school policy.  Until we know what that violation was, which was more than likely boneheaded, we’re holding back from reporting on those incidents.  It has been pretty amazing, though, how [...]

A bonehead story from the world of horse racing! Trainer Patrick Biancone has been suspended for a year for having snake venom in a fridge at his barn. This stuff is used to numb horse nerves to help them perform better. Biancone won’t be able to train horses anywhere in the U.S. because of this [...]

Austrian tennis player Stefan Koubek was disqualified from the Open de Moselle on Thursday after blowing up at an official over a call. During Koubek’s match with Sebastien Grosjean, Koubek made a scene with the supervisor of the match.  The linesman was unsure whether Grosjean’s serve was in or out and called for a replay.  [...]

After years of vehement denial in the face of steroids allegations, Marion Jones has finally come clean. Jones will enter a guilty plea in court on Friday that she illegally took “the clear” for 2 years, starting in 1999. Jones won 5 medals, 3 golds, at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, but now she may [...]

Mike Tyson pled guilty on Monday to DUI and drug possession charges related to an incident on December 29.  He admitted he had cocaine and was driving under the influence when he was pulled over in Scottsdale last year.  Sadly, Tyson admitted that he used cocaine “whenever I can get my hands on it.”  Goodness.  [...]