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Old 27 September 2009, 02:13 AM
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Throw Tomato The Chutzpah Hall of Fame

Most times, cheating in sports is clearly nothing more than a series of crude impulses followed by a simple act of subterfuge—stuffing cork in your bat, for instance, or having your cousin inject you with three gallons of nandrolone.

But once in a while, somebody like Nelson Piquet does something so outstanding in its complexity and audacity that it can't be easily explained — much less forgotten. Here are six other examples in sports that we have deemed worthy of a nomination to another, more exclusive subset of sports cheaters: the Chutzpah Hall of Fame.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...614119142.html
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