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OTHER SPORTS BANS

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BASEBALL

* PETE ROSE, Cincinnati Reds: As manager of the Reds, the sport’s all-time hit leader was charged with betting on baseball. He was the first person to be banned from baseball since 1943 and the only manager. Although he has never admitted to the charges, Rose is ineligible for the Hall of Fame and hasn’t applied for reinstatement.

* WILLIAM D. BOX, Philadelphia Phillies: The team’s president was banned in 1943 for betting on his own team and was never reinstated.

* SHOELESS JOE JACKSON, Chicago White Sox: One of eight Chicago players on the 1919 team charged with throwing that season’s World Series. Jackson compiled a .356 lifetime batting average, third highest in baseball history. None of the players were reinstated.

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BASKETBALL

* CONNIE HAWKINS: While a freshman at the University of Iowa in 1960, Hawkins incriminated himself before a grand jury in New York City investigating charges of fixed college basketball games in the late 1950’s. Even though the principals in the scandal, including Jack Molinas, said Hawkins had no knowledge of fixed games, the NBA banned him before he had played his first college game. He was a star in the ABA and with the Harlem Globetrotters before NBA Commissioner Walter Kennedy lifted the ban in 1969 after settling a lawsuit that Hawkins had filed against the league. He played seven NBA seasons in the 1970s with the Suns, Lakers and Hawks.

BOXING

* MUHAMMAD ALI: In 1967, the heavyweight champion had his title stripped by the World Boxing Assn. for refusing induction in the Army during the Vietnam War. In June of that year, a federal court in Houston found Ali guilty of violation of the Selective Service Act and imposed a $10,000 fine and a five-year sentence. He remained out of jail pending appeal but was banished from boxing. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction in June of 1970 and Ali returned to the ring that October, knocking out Jerry Quarry in the third round.

FIGURE SKATING

* TONYA HARDING: The U.S. Figure Skating Assn. banned Harding in 1994 for her role in the cover-up of an attack on Nancy Kerrigan before that year’s U.S. Championships at Detroit. Kerrigan suffered a knee injury in the attack and missed the competition. Harding went on to win the title but finished eighth at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Norway. Harding hasn’t applied for reinstatement but has expressed interest in returning and possibly competing for another country.

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FOOTBALL

* DEXTER MANLEY: Manley was given an automatic lifetime banishment from the NFL in 1989 after testing positive for drugs for the third time. When the All-Pro defensive end was reinstated in November of 1990 by Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, he was immediately waived by the Washington Redskins for whom he had played since 1981. He was picked up by the Arizona Cardinals and played for them for one season.

HOCKEY

* BILLY TAYLOR, New York Rangers and DON GALLINGER, Boston Bruins: Despite competing on different teams, Taylor and Gallinger were both booted out of the league in 1948 for alleged gambling on NHL games. They were reinstated in 1970, many years past their playing days ended. Taylor later worked as a scout for the Pittsburgh Penguins, but Gallinger never returned to the game.

TRACK AND FIELD

* BEN JOHNSON: The Canadian sprinter was banned by the International Amateur Athletic Federation in 1993 after testing positive for the second time for a banned substance. In 1988, he was stripped of his Olympic gold medal and world record in the 100 meters after testing positive for anabolic steroids. He recently withdrew his bid to the IAAF to have his ban lifted, pending a suit he has filed in Ontario to win the right to race again.

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This is a partial list of sports bans.

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