Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet Book

From boxing to cycling, soccer to baseball, here are the hardest men and criminals, the psychos and the loonies, that make up the sporting madness hall of shame. Among the prime candidates for sporting lunacy in this book: Prinya Charoenpal, one of the most talented kick-boxers in the sport's history, who wore make-up and pink nail polish and who fought solely to get the money for a sex-change operation. Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds, the San Francisco 49ers linebacker during the 1980s, who was so drunk after a game he went out to the parking lot with a hacksaw and cut someone's car in half. The Brazilian football star Edmundo, infamous on the pitch for beating up fans, referees, and journalists and making his name off it by crashing his truck and killing three people. He was also arrested for force-feeding beer to a chimpanzee at his son's birthday party. Among other outrageous stories is the rugby player with a predilection for sticking a finger up opponents' rears on the field of play.