The 20 Most Ridiculously Humiliating Sports Injuries of All-Time

San Diego Padres pitcher Mat Latos recently had to go on the disabled list for a sneezing-related injury. He tried to stifle the sneeze, but his finely-tuned athlete body couldn't handle the pressure and he pulled a muscle. 

Is this the most humiliating athlete injury of all-time? Not even close.

Here are the Top 20.

#1 -- Lionel Simmons

In 1991 Sacramento Kings rookie forward Lionel Simmons missed two games due to tendonitis in his right wrist and forearm from playing too much GameBoy.  As humiliating as the injury was, Simmons' ability to get to Level 25 on Tetris remains the biggest accomplishment in Sacramento Kings history.

Fun Fact: There's a very good chance the guy in this original GameBoy commercial is former NBA scrub Rex Walters.

#2 -- Steve Sparks 

During Spring Training in 1994 the Milwaukee Brewers received a visit from an inspirational team of strongmen.  After the group left, journeyman knuckleballer Steve Sparks tried to replicate their stunts by ripping a phone book in half.  Big surprise:  he dislocated his shoulder and failed to make his first big-league roster.  Tough break for a knuckleballer, and this incident is why to this day Tim Wakefield won’t rip anything larger than a copy of Mike Lowell’s memoir Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within. 

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#3 -- Wade Boggs

Wade Boggs is a man of many appetites.  He loves chicken, ill-fated rides atop police horses, and dressing like a cowboy.  That third love caught up to him during his career, though.  Boggs once missed a seven-game stretch after straining his back while pulling on his cowboy boots.  Most baseball historians feel this injury was karmic payback for taking the wrong side in the legendary Lord Palmerston/Pitt the Elder debate of 1992.   

#4 -- Nolan Ryan

Nolan Ryan is currently vying to buy the Texas Rangers, and that’s not even the worst decision he’s ever made.  During his pitching career he liked to go for drives in the country, and he once brought back two adorable coyote puppies from a little jaunt.  How could bringing home a pair of feral dogs possibly go wrong? 

Ah, yes, coyotes bite.  Of course one of the pups took a chomp out of the flamethrower, and animal control officers became concerned that Ryan might contract rabies.  Ryan had to go through a painful battery of rabies shots that kept him out of his next start for the Astros.  Meanwhile, Ozzie Guillen has enjoyed a lengthy managerial career for the Chicago White Sox while clearly dealing with the effects of an active rabies infection.