Carl Nicks
It's one thing to leave a team for a truckload of money, but it's another to leave a team for its biggest rival.
It's one thing to leave a team for a truckload of money, but it's another to leave a team for its biggest rival.
NHL fans are livid with this man and that won't change if and when the lockout ends and hockey is restored.
How can you leave the only team for which you've ever played right after winning the World Series? Dude wouldn't got plenty of cash in St. Louis. The bright lights of LA snagged another one.
Sure, CJ Wilson is from Southern California, but leaving a team on which you're the ace for its biggest division rival after back-to-back World Series trips is Bush League.
The Miami Heat and Boston Celtics are about as fierce as it gets when it comes to out-of-division, intra-conference rivals. For Ray Allen to leave one for the other is sacrilegious.
The worst part about Urban Meyer's situation is everyone had sympathy for him when he left Florida for "personal reasons" but that was only to wait for another superb college football coaching job to come open it seems.
How can you take Tim Tebow from the humble fans in Denver to the immoral circus that is the New York Jets? Shame on you, Mike Tannenbaum.
He left the Boston Red Sox in a state of absolute turmoil. Theo Epstein literally could not have left his old team in worse shape. Well, he paid for it because the Chicago Cubs are even worse.
Putting a program in utter disarray and then lying about it to cover up an affair definitely puts you on the villain list.
Less than a year after nearly ruining the NFL season due to a lockout, Roger Goodell did ruin the first part of the 2012 campaign by forcing the replacement refs upon us. If the Seattle Seahawks make the playoffs by one game and the Green Bay Packers end up having to play them, Goodell won't be welcome in Wisconsin anymore.
He's still an inspiration to those who suffer from cancer, but Lance Armstrong lost a lot of respect when he gave up the fight to clear his name from accusation of doping. In short, he quit, which is something he always told others never to do.
The New Orleans Saints Bountygate scandal was primarily because of their then-defensive coordinator, Gregg Williams. After hearing the audio of him telling his players to knock Frank Gore's head sideways, he's definitely a villain.
If all of his other absolutely ridiculous instances weren't enough, Ron Artest (I refuse to call him by that moronic name) threw an elbow into James Harden's head that knocked him to the floor. If you say it was unintentional, you shouldn't be allowed to watch or talk about basketball ever again, just like he shouldn't be allowed to play it.
Another Los Angeles Lakers bawl bag makes the list as Dwight Howard strung the Orlando Magic out like a moody middle school girl before eventually making his way to Hollywood. In less than a full season, Howard went from one of the league's most likable players to the top of the villain list.
And the LA trifecta! No one would have faulted Steve Nash for leaving Phoenix if he had signed with literally any team except the Lakers.
Two years in a row this hothead stomped on an opposing player on Thanksgiving Day on national television. Ndamukong Suh is definitely getting coal in his stocking again this year.
David Stern clearly needs to bump up his retirement date. He fined the San Antonio Spurs half a million dollars for resting some of their starters, which is something they do literally every week. Dude is whack.
If you haven't heard already, Derek Jeter is quite the lady's "man." He gets intimate with a different date pretty much daily, so of course he didn't remember one "lucky" girl who slept with him twice and received the same gift basket full of signed memorabilia again the next morning. Villain probably isn't a strong enough word, actually...
Jerry Sandusky was convicted on 45 accounts of child sexual abuse. Enough said.
The latest polarizing star to leave a success-starved, loyal fan base for a division rival is Josh Hamilton. The Texas Rangers offered him less than the Los Angeles Angels, so he bolted. This self-proclaimed religious guy has apparently never read 1 Timothy 6:10.
