With thousands of people watching, these athletes decided to break the law in major, major ways.

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Above the USA's Hilary Knight celebrates not getting arrested during the Women's Gold Medal match. Just kidding! She's celebrating winning!

Resto, reflecting on it all, said, "I should have said something," instead of going along with the scheme. He also went to the cemetery and said to Collins Jr.'s grave, "I'm sorry for what I did to you."

Collins Sr., meanwhile, was focused on what could have been if not for that night. "My boy would have been world champion. He would have been great." 

"Some people have control over their emotions," Artest said in the Netflix documentary Untold: The Malice at the Palace. "I don't. I was trying to find any way to escape."

Offerman later apologized and claimed the pitch had been intentional, saying, “Everything happened so fast. I lost my head.” He never played professional baseball again.

The case echoes the famous Black Sox scandal of 1919, when White Sox players were caught purposefully throwing the World Series so gamblers could make a huge payday.

McSorley — seen above in one of his many, many fights — was hammered with the longest suspension in league history at the time — 23 games. It effectively ended the 17-year veteran’s career...which is most remembered for one of the most infamous cheap shots the sport has ever seen.

Gary Pallister, a teammate of Cantona's back in the '90s, defended Cantora, at least by adding some context to what the soccer star faced on a daily basis. In a BBC interview, he recounted how cameras followed Cantora around every day, and once, while drinking at a hotel bar, people spat on him from above without fear of recourse. Well, Simmons, it seems, got a whole lot of recourse. 

As for Cantona, he isn't too repentant about the kick. In fact, when asked about his best moment in sport, he replied, “My best moment? I have a lot of good moments, but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.”

However — plot twist — despite arrests and national outrage, the Zimbabwe Football Association's disciplinary case ultimately collapsed for a surprisingly bureaucratic reason — it filed its disciplinary charges after the seven-day deadline required under its own rules. The case against them was dropped, and, at least based on my admittedly mid online sleuthing skills, it doesn't appear any of the players did time.