Controversial former pro athlete Lenny Dykstra has now been added to the riches to rags list. Dykstra has been the center of controversy over the years as he was named in a sexual harassment claim, alleged to speak offensively about blacks, women, and gays, and was named in the Mitchell report as a steroid user. It was recently reported that Dykstra is facing foreclosure on his Thousand Oaks home. The house has been on the market for some time with little to no interest. Dykstra is reported to be $12 million in the hole for this house and Washington Mutual has begun the foreclosure process. He has already had a luxury boat repossessed. Ironically, Dykstra tried to start a magazine, the Players Club, aimed at helping professional athletes manage their millions. He dropped about $3 million of his own money and enlisted the help of icons including Wayne Gretzky, Tim Brown, and Ron Darling. The magazine failed after its first publication. This is quite the fall, as Jim Cramer had once crowned Dykstra," One of the great ones in this business," referring to day trading. Very few will argue that he was a great baseball player on the field, but his actions off have been less than stellar. Is he the victim of a bad economy or bad karma?
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