History of high-profile sports bans and fines

Here is a list of some of the more notable punishments doled out in sport:

Major League Baseball's Alex Rodriguez was suspended for the entire 162 games of the 2014 season for his role in a doping scandal that also cost the New York Yankees slugger about $22 million in lost salary.

The NFL's New Orleans Saints were fined $500,000 and lost two second-round draft picks while head coach Sean Payton was suspended the entire 2012 season and general manager Mickey Loomis for eight games over a bounty program that rewarded players for deliberately injuring opposing players.