Nobody is going to miss creepy, walking douche-chill Donald Sterling. After he was handed a lifetime ban from the NBA yesterday, it is presumed that we've seen and heard (thankfully) the last of the 80 year old real estate mogul. But it made us think of all the other lifetime bans. Here's some of the best from the NHL, MLB, NBA and, hell, even SNL.

Pete Rose (MLB)

The sad thing about Pete is that -- almost pathetic gambling problems aside -- nobody could hit a baseball like Pete Rose. An integral part of the Cincinnati Reds "Big Red Machine" team, widely considered as one of the best teams that ever played. Some 30 years after his playing days ended, he still remains a leader—if not an all-time leader—in hits (4,256), games played (3,562) and at-bats (14,053). As manager of the Cincinnati Reds during the mid-1980s he bet on (but never against) his team throughout the 1985, '86, an '87 seasons, resulting in a lifetime ban from the sport—one that gets revisited every time something like this happens.

Hal Chase (MLB)

Hal was, according to glowing testimony from none other than Babe Ruth, the best first baseman who ever played the game. But he had a terrible habit of throwing some of them. He bribed a pitcher just $50 (up your bribery game, Hal! Come on!) to throw a game and was promptly banned for the 1915 season, at the end of which an anonymous source mailed a Chicago sportswriter a copy of a cheque for $500 that Chase had cashed from a gambler in payment for throwing a game. He was rumored to be the go-between for the players and the gamblers during the 1919 World Series scandal, although he was never charged by a jury. Despite being one of the best players in the game, he died broke while living at his sister's house in 1947, barred from the game completely.

Marge Schott (MLB)

Marge Schott was the owner of the Cincinnati Reds from 1985 until 1996 (and briefly again in 1999 before she sold her controlling stake in the team), when she was banned by the MLB after expressing support of (guess who?) Adolf Hitler (really!), saying that "He was good at the beginning but he went too far." During the 1992 season she was cited for refering to several Cincinnati Reds players by using the N-word and in 1994 she off-handedly remarked during a speech that "only fruits wear earrings." Facial hair on any team player was banned, too, under her rule, until the ban was lifted in 1999. She even regifted flowers after an umpire died, changing the card and sending them on to a funeral home, according to her Wikipedia page.

Frank Zappa (SNL)

The party-line about Frank Zappa being banned from SNL is that he was mugging for the camera and having a little too much fun with the cue cards, yet the real reason for his lifelong ban (he died in 1993) may have to do with his vehement anti-drug stance. According to SNL lore, he and the cast did not get along at all and he reciprocated their irritation by tanking the live performance.

Milton Berle (SNL)

Later that same season, Milton Berle accidentally showed Gilda Radner his freakishly large penis, but that isn't the reason he got banned from the show. Like Zappa, he mugged for the camera, but Berle went as far as to ad-lib entire sketches on the show, as well as perform an entirely serious (and entirely odd) rendition of "September Song." (Skip to around the 1 hour markif you want to check it out for yourself.) The show was only aired once and did not see a repeat until 2003, with SNL's Lorne Michaels saying that he thought that Berle's performance not only made the show look bad but made Berle look worse.

Andy Kaufman (SNL)

Kaufman, who appeared semi-regularly throughout the first five years of SNL, pitched an idea during a writer's meeting wherein viewers called into the show via 900 number to decide whether to vote him off the show for good. After he and executive producer Dick Ebersol got in a heated fight, Ebersol decided to run with Kaufman's idea. The viewers spoke, and Kaufman never returned to the show.

Sinéad O'Connor (SNL)

Duh.

Ron Artest And Five Fans

When Ron and another player got involved in a big fight during a 2004 game, it sparked a massive fight that resulted in five Indiana Pacers fans being banned from home games for life. Artest was banned from 86 games, which included 13 playoff games. Metta World Peace, however, has never been banned from anywhere.

Adrien Brody (SNL)

Brody appeared in a faux Jamaican dreadlock wig to introduce reggaeton musical guest Sean Paul, rambled for nearly 45 seconds in a barely-there Jamaican accentand was banned from the show for good.

Sean Young (Directors Guild)

The Blade Runner actress was banned from the Directors Guild Of America in 2008 after she drunkenly heckled director Julian Schnabel as he was accepting an award. This has since made it extremely tough for her to find work again. Don't shit where you eat.

Billy Coutu (NHL)

Billy Coutu bears the unfortunate distinction of being the only NHL player to ever be banned for life. During Game 4 of the 1927 Stanley Cup Final, Coutu beat up not one but two different referees. He was subsequently banned from the league, but the ban was partially lifted in 1929. Coutu was allowed to play in the minor leagues until, in his first comeback season, he beat an opposing player over the head with his stick.

Dexter Manley (NFL)

Dexter failed 4 drug tests

Art Schlichter (NFL)

Despite being a lauded QB in college (and a fourth overall draft pick selection), Art gambled approximately $700,000 away during the player's strike of 1982. When he approached the NFL for aid, the NFL banned him from the sport indefinitely. He returned two years later to the Buffalo Bills, but was given very little time on the field and was ultimately cut after just one season. He pled guilty to gambling on the games and was then awarded a real lifetime ban. He is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence for first-degree felony fraud.

Martin Lawrence (SNL)

Lawrence, without telling anyone before the show, used his monologue to rant against women that he perceived did not shower enough, and detailed the impact this had on his sex life. It is so vulgar, apparently, SNL producers cut the monologue out of repeats and displayed a title card saying, "It was a frank and lively presentation... that nearly cost us all our jobs."

Stanley Wilson (NFL)

The night before the 1989 Superbowl, Stanley Wilson of the Cincinnati Bengals told coaches he needed to return to the locker room to retrieve his playbook. After 20 minutes, the coaches found him doing lines of blow in the player's bathroom

Southern Methodist University Football Scandal (NCAA)

The "Ponygatescandal wasn't just one person — it involved all of the SMU players being on a slush-fund payroll. The NCAA canceled the entire 1987 season — the first and only time they've ever done so for a football team — and the school didn't play a game until 1989. SMU used to be ranked in the top 20 teams in the nation before the scandal. It devastated the team to the point where they didn't return to a bowl game until 2009.

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