Pete Rose

Pete Rose, the MLB’s all-time hits leader, was banned from the league for life in August 1989 for gambling. An investigation found that Rose bet on games while he was the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, and although he initially denied the allegations, Rose admitted in his 2004 autobiography that he did bet on teams, including his own.

“There’s nothing I can change about the history of Pete Rose,” Rose said in his last interview to KTLA-TV. “I keep convincing myself or telling myself, ‘Hang in there, Pete, you’ll get a second chance.’ ”

Rose had four children with his ex-wives: two with Karolyn Englehardt and two with Carol Woliung. He began dating Playboy model Kiana Kim during his separation from Woliung, and the two became engaged in 2011 but never married.

Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005 but was stripped of all his titles — including his Olympic medal — after an investigation found that he had used performance-enhancing drugs over his entire career. During a 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey, he admitted to using testosterone, human growth hormone and EPO and taking blood transfusions.

The admission of guilt came after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charged him with doping in 2012, and he lost endorsements, had to pay $5 million to the U.S. government and was banned from all sports that follow the World Anti-Doping Code.

Armstrong shares three children with his ex-wife Kristin Richard and remarried to Anna Hansen Armstrong in August 2022. He shares two children with Anna.

Now based out of Austin, Texas, the former cyclist hosts two podcasts: THEMOVE and The Forward. He also appeared on the Fox reality show Stars on Mars in 2023.

Tonya Harding

In one of figure skating’s most controversial decisions, Tonya Harding was stripped of her national championship and banned from the sport for life for her involvement in the attack of her rival Nancy Kerrigan.

Less than two months before the 1994 Olympic Games, Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee by an assailant, who had been hired by Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and her bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt. Harding denied knowing the attacker in an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary series episode about the incident.

Harding was convicted of hindering the investigation and received three years probation, 500 hours of community service and a $160,000 fine — as well as a lifetime ban from figure skating. A 2008 PEOPLE profile revealed she had been arrested twice — once for a DUI and once for an attempted suicide.

Harding lived her life away from the limelight in the years that followed. She wed Joseph Jens Price in 2010, and the couple welcomed a son together in 2011.

Margot Robbie played the former athlete in the biopic I, Tonya, which brought her back into the limelight. She participated in season 26 of Dancing with the Stars and placed third overall.

Alex Rodriguez

In 2013, the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez received a 211-game suspension after the MLB found that he used prohibited substances from 2010 to 2012. Rodriguez admitted to the Drug Enforcement Administration that he had used performance-enhancing drugs from the rejuvenation clinic Biogenesis of America.

He retired from baseball after the 2016 season and became a sports broadcaster for networks like Fox Sports 1, ESPN and CNBC. He began dating Jennifer Lopez in February 2017, and the two became engaged in March 2019 but called it off in April 2021.

He is currently with his girlfriend of two years, fitness trainer Jaclyn Cordeiro.

Metta Sandiford-Artest

After the Malice in the Palace, where Indiana Pacers players got into a brawl with Detroit Pistons fans, the NBA suspended Metta Sandiford-Artest (formerly known as Ron Artest) for the remainder of the 2004-2005 season. The retired basketball player missed a total of 86 games and lost approximately $5 million in salary, according to MSNBC.

He returned at the start of the 2005-2006 season after being traded to the Sacramento Kings, and he went on to have a successful career before retiring in 2017, winning an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2010.

Following his retirement, the basketball star appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2018 and The Masked Singer in 2023. He is the father to four children: three with ex-wife Kimsha Hatfield and one with former high school sweetheart Jennifer Palma. Sandiford-Artest married his second wife Maya Sandiford in 2018, and the pair announced in June 2024 that they were expecting their first child together.

Marion Jones

Marion Jones was stripped of her five medals at the 2000 Sydney Games by the International Olympic Committee after admitting in court that she had taken steroids. At the time, Jones was the first female track and field athlete to win five medals at a single Olympics. She was barred from attending the upcoming Beijing Olympics and faced a lifetime ban from the Games.

In January 2008, she was sentenced to six months in jail for check fraud and using performance-enhancing drugs.

She later played for the WNBA with the Tulsa Shock between 2010 and 2011. Now, Jones is a mother of three and stepped away from the sporting world to reflect on “why certain choices were made,” she said in a 2024 Good Morning America interview.

Maria Sharapova

Maria Sharapova announced in a 2016 press conference that she had tested positive for the banned substance meldonium. She says the use wasn’t intentional, as World Anti-Doping Agency had only recently banned the drug and she didn’t realize. Sharapova was dealt a two-year suspension that was later reduced to 15 months.

She returned to the court in 2017, but after three uneventful years on tour and persistent injuries, the five-time Grand Slam champion retired after the 2020 Australian Open.

The tennis star is now engaged to British businessman Alexander Gilkes, and they share a son, Theodore, born in July 2022.

Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis, a five-time Grand Slam champion, tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine after the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. Although she decided to retire at the end of the year due to a hip injury, she appealed to the International Tennis Federation but was rejected and handed a two-year ban.

Hingis later returned to professional tennis as a doubles player in 2013, winning four Grand Slams in women’s doubles and six in mixed doubles. She retired for the third time in 2017.

The tennis star married sports physician Harald Leemann in July 2018, and the couple welcomed their first child, daughter Lia, in February 2019. Hingis and Leemann divorced in August 2022.