Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Josh Hader found himself in a firestorm following Tuesday's All-Star Game after tweets surfaced featuring anti-gay and racist language. Hader, who awaits possible discipline from the Brewers and/or the league, is far from the first person to find himself in hot water on social media. Many others have blazed this unfortunate trail before him. We look back at some posts that proved costly in the sports world, concentrating on those that had actual consequences that went beyond mere embarrassment.
(This file was previously published and has been updated).
NBA
Philadelphia 76ers general manager Bryan Colangelo resigned under pressure following the discovery of anonymous Twitter accounts, reportedly opened by Colangelo's wife, used to criticize 76ers players.
Heat owner Micky Arison gets fined an unprecedented $500,000 for several tweets he sent during the NBA lockout that suggested a divide and a rift between factions of owners (2011).
Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire is fined $50,000 by the NBA after tweeting a gay slur and an expletive at a fan who criticized Stoudemire's play during the previous season (2012).
Spurs guard Stephen Jackson is fined $25,000 for a hostile, threatening tweet directed at Serge Ibaka in defense of Metta World Peace, whom Ibaka got into a tussle with during a Thunder-Lakers game (2012).
Knicks guard J.R. Smith is fined $25,000 by the NBA for a tweet that went viral featuring a semi-nude woman (2012). He is also fined $25,000 for threatening Pistons guard Brandon Jennings on Twitter (2013).
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been fined multiple times by the NBA for criticizing officials on Twitter, getting fined $25,000 in 2009 and $50,000 in 2013.
76ers center Joel Embiid is fined $10,000 by the NBA for using "inappropriate" language directed at LaVar Ball, the father of Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball, on an Instagram Live video (2017).
Thunder forward Patrick Patterson is fined $10,000 for criticizing officials for their decisions at the end of a controversial two-point loss to the Bucks (2017).
Chad Shanks, the Rockets' digital communications director, is fired for tweeting emojis of a gun pointed at a horse head, implying that the Rockets were going to eliminate the Mavericks in the playoffs (2015).
Sometimes you can go too far. I will no longer run @HoustonRockets but am grateful to the organization that let me develop an online voice.
— Chad Shanks (@chadjshanks) April 29, 2015
NFL
Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen, rated by some as the top quarterback in the 2018 draft, drops to No. 7 (third quarterback selected) after racially insensitive tweets surface from when Allen was a high schooler (2018).
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ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith recounts the conversation he had with potential No. 1 draft pick Josh Allen after the QB's tweets from high school resurfaced.
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Scott Van Pelt explains why he is mind-boggled by Antonio Brown 's FaceBook post of the Steelers' locker room speech and considers it an out-of-bounds move.
Browns running back Isaiah Crowell donates a game check ($35,294) to a Dallas police organization after a graphic Facebook post that depicted a police officer having his throat slashed (2016).
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Bomani Jones wonders what Browns running back Isaiah Crowell was thinking when he posted a drawing on Instagram of a hooded man appearing to put what looks like a machete into the throat of a police officer.
MLB
Statement from Jerry Dipoto, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Baseball Operations on Tweets from catcher Steve Clevenger. pic.twitter.com/1xWk6dy5ap
— Mariners (@Mariners) September 23, 2016
Just had a meeting encouraging all players to take a stance and be leaders politically. Here's my stance. I find it disingenuous that @mlb commissioners office would encourage this when they've specifically tried to censor me for sharing my opinion on the matter. #RiseUp
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) March 8, 2018
NHL
Really hope everyone in Edmonton is ok. We're behind you. This is why we have to be aware of some of the people we let into our country. 🇨🇦
— Max Domi (@max_domi) October 1, 2017
Soccer
Switzerland national team player Michel Morganella is kicked off the country's Olympic team and sent home after making racist comments against Koreans on Twitter (2012).
Chelsea forward Kenedy is sent home from the Blues' preseason tour of China for derogatory comments about the Chinese made in a pair of Instagram videos (2017).
French national Samir Nasri is banned for six months by UEFA for a 500-milliliter intravenous drip treatment after photos on social media from a Los Angeles-based IV clinic showed him at the facility (2018).
Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann poses in blackface as a Harlem Globetrotter on Twitter and later apologizes after receiving considerable backlash (2017).
United States and Stoke City winger Brek Shea apologizes after brandishing guns on Instagram (2013). Shea also was the subject of an internal investigation after being pictured with a severed pig head as part of a "prank" against striker Kenwyne Jones.
I realize I should not have posted the picture earlier yesterday on Instagram. I sincerely apologize to all who were offended by it.
— Brek Shea (@BrekShea) June 25, 2013
Colleges
Villanova guard Donte DiVincenzo deletes his Twitter account after old tweets from 2011 and 2013, in which he engages in racial and homophobic slurs, were discovered after his Final Four MVP performance (2018). The impact of the tweets on DiVincenzo's draft stock will remain an open question.
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Dan Le Batard says he doesn't like the media treating Villanova's Donte DiVincenzo like a professional athlete by digging into his old tweets.
I love Texas A&M football. I guard it and respect it with my life. I don't take that lightly day to day
— Aaron Moorehead (@Amo8685) May 5, 2016
Thx 2 everyone who brought the inappropriate tweet to our attention. @UNAAthletics does not condone. He is no longer a member of the team.
— Mark Linder (@markdlinder) December 17, 2012
#TBT still can't believe I tweeted something as stupid as this but hey, we live and we learn, after your religion/ pic.twitter.com/mqCLK2uEHw
— Cardale Jones (@Cardale7_) April 2, 2015
Golf
Olympics
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