Nominations for the Sports Idiocy of the Year

Its time for my annual Sports Idiocy of the Year award. In some places awards will certainly go out to Terrell Owens for his body of lunacy, and the Cincinnati Bengals for achievements by a team with their eight (at last count) arrests. There are also numerous bizarre injury awards (not necessarily due to stupidity) like Jeff Francoeur injuring himself sneezing and Thomas Jones injuring himself TAKING a team physical.
I am going to ignore the obvious and present some other worthy nominees. I like to think of this as a place where absolutely stupidity, or one time idiotic acts or decisions are rewarded. It'll make you all think to yourselves, "Oh why are they able to be so rich and famous with that brain?"

My nominees:

David Beckham - Beckham was asked in an interview about helping son Brooklyn with his homework: "I think it was maths, actually. It's done totally differently to what I was teached when I was at school, and you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, I can't do this.'" Brooklyn is seven.

LeBron James - During a "Read to Achieve" session with elementary school children, Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James was unable to read one of the tongue-twisting names in Dr. Seuss' "Oh, the Places You'll Go."

Joel Zumaya - Detroit Tigers pitcher Joel Zumaya was sidelined during the playoffs with an injury described as "right wrist and forearm inflammation caused by playing video games".

Eddie Griffin - Griffin, a highly paid professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberowlves was cited for (among other things) "Inattentive Driving" after an incident in March. He was also drunk. And the inattention? The porno DVD he was watching on the dashboard video screen of his Cadillac Escalade.

Mitch Cozad - University of Northern Colorado punter... backup punter...former backup punter. Former because he was kicked off the team, and evicted from the dorms, and expelled from school, and yeah, arrested, after stabbing the first string punter in the leg, the kicking leg, of course.

Joe Cullen - A coach for the Detroit Lions. No, that is not what he is nominated for, though it’s almost good enough. But Cullen is an overachiever. He was arrested for DUI on Sept. 1st. Okay, I know that's not going to get any awards in the sports world. It was a good follow up to Cullen's incident a week earlier, on Aug. 24th, when Cullen was arrested for driving without... clothes at a Wendy's drive-thru (and how many of you said "license" to yourselves?).

Those are the nominees; please vote in the comments section. And while you ponder the tough decision that awaits you, I bring you sports related idiot Konoshin Kawabata, 48, of Osaka Japan. Kawabata is a thief and one night as he was on the prowl for something to steal, he came upon an unlocked door. So enter unlawfully he did and browsing for something to take, he unfortunately awoke one of the occupants of the building, a dude named Hideyuki Kawahara, who is also known by his Sumo name Dewanosato. Oh yeah, the building is a training center for sumo wrestlers. Kawabata was placed under citizen's arrest.

Your vote counts!!!