Archive for November 2022

MSU Players Make Bad Decisions

By on November 24, 2022   /   Division I Football, Sports Ethics, Uncategorized   /   Leave a comment
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Why Sports Ethics? On October 29, 2022, Michigan beat Michigan State 29-7 in Ann Arbor. The game was over, the players should have shook hands and better luck next year. That’s not what happened. At least seven Michigan State players assaulted Michigan cornerbacks Gemon Green and Ja’Den McBurrows in the tunnel that leads from the field to the locker rooms. The MSU players got beat on the field, so they were determined to strike back long after it didn’t make a difference. They were not going to let the loss […]

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Infantino is on the wrong warpath

By on November 19, 2022   /   Sports Ethics, Uncategorized, World Cup Soccer   /   Leave a comment
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“Demands for equality, dignity and compensation cannot be treated as some sort of culture war – they are universal human rights that FIFA has committed to respect in its own statutes,” Amnesty International spokesperson Steve Cockburn As a sports ethics keynote speaker and sports ethics consultant, I suppose I am hypersensitive to deflection. For example, a muscular NFL running back beats his fiancé senseless and unconscious, then claims she instigated it by spitting on him during the pre-beatdown argument. Deflection may be a tool commonly used by the unethical, but […]

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He said and she said, and there goes reputation

By on November 18, 2022   /   NBA, NBA Basketball, Uncategorized   /   Leave a comment
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The situation resulting in the San Antonio Spurs terminating Joshua Primo is a classic case of He Said/She Said that never needed to happen. That said, he is 19-years-old and by his own admission has emotional issues. As a keynote speaker on Sports Ethics, I know all too well that there are situations athletes face that are at once confusing and frightening where a more mature intercession might have helped. The psychologist and the athlete At the heart of the matter, a trained psychologist claimed the young man had exposed […]

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Beyond ugly: Rape at the Paralympic Games

By on November 16, 2022   /   Olympics, Paralympics, Swimming, Swimming and water sports, Uncategorized   /   Leave a comment
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The term “Disabled athlete” evokes an entire range of responses from those outside the community. We have all, hopefully, grown together to allow those with physical and/or behavioral impairments to compete, thrive and get the recognition they deserve. The disability community has many allies, and those who have lent love and support in a million ways. However, just as any generalization is damaging when directed toward a group, it is equally wrong to assume everyone in a group is saintly or beyond fault. Within the disabled athlete grouping are entire […]

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Business and sports collide in Miami

By on November 14, 2022   /   Miami Heat, NBA   /   Leave a comment
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As a sports ethics keynote speaker and sports ethics consultant, as well as a business ethics keynote speaker and business ethics consultant, Chuck Gallagher is always wary of can’t miss “deals” and where they might lead. Sam Bankman-Fried is not an NBA player Sam Bankman-Fried is the failed CEO of the bitcoin trading platform known as FTX. While the bitcoin concept is not an easy investment to explain, indications are that FTX was a more opaque financial play than most. What I do know about FTX was that Bankman-Fried was […]

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Why the Portland Thorns must matter to all of us

By on November 12, 2022   /   Coaching Issues, Div 1 Women's Sports, NCAA Women's Soccer, Professional Athletes - General, Women's Soccer   /   Leave a comment
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As a sports ethics keynote speaker, sports ethics consultant and co-author of Monday Morning Ethics, my heart is invested in ethical choices and consequences. As grandfather to girls, my heart is invested in their future happiness. Whether they become athletes — or not, is not relevant; that they have an equal chance to compete in all phases of life, is both my desire and my cause. Every time I think society has “arrived,” something comes along to discourage my optimism. The Portland Thorns Before touching on the key points of […]

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Should Sports Ethics Matter to a D1 Athlete?

By on November 10, 2022   /   Division I Football, NCAA, NFL Football   /   Leave a comment
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A sports ethics friend sent a text and asked if I had heard about the University of Nebraska Huskers safety who was arrested last week for a DUI? At the time it was kind of absurd, because my residence is in South Carolina and my friend lives outside of Cleveland. How did he hear about a DUI involving a Nebraska player? It was apparently on ESPN and other national sites. In these times — and forever more — nothing is local. He couldn’t remember the name of the player so […]

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Is Cornhole a sport? Does it make a difference?

By on November 9, 2022   /   Uncategorized   /   Leave a comment
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Cornhole, much like horseshoes, bocce ball or shuffleboard may not be considered much of a sport, but as a sports ethics keynote speaker, sports ethics consultant and book author, I know cornhole is well on its way to being legitimized. How do I know this, because it is already embroiled in a major scandal. Yes, there are professional Corn-holer’s and they make a lot of money Professional cornhole players may bring down as much as $250K a year. Whatever you think the “sport” may be, guys who may have never […]

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Hope Solo needs help, not judgement

By on November 8, 2022   /   Div 1 Women's Sports, NCAA Women's Soccer, Women's Soccer, World Cup Soccer   /   Leave a comment
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Hope Solo, much like you and me, has had her share of triumphs and tragedies. At the end of March 2022, Solo was discovered to be unconscious in a parking lot. It was not so much a “medical condition,” as an alcoholic condition. When the police awakened her, she was combative and tried to convince the officers she was merely taking a rest. She refused a sobriety test. The police pulled her from her vehicle; she resisted and was placed under arrest. A warrant was issued and she was found […]

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Brett Favre is Worrying Me

By on November 1, 2022   /   Fraud, NFL, NFL Football, Sports Ethics, Sports Management   /   Leave a comment
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by Bruce Wolk for Sports Ethics If you have grown up loving football, and Brett Favre in particular, I cannot believe what he has done to ruin his reputation in these past months. First, there was the diversion of PPP funds that he and co-defendants at the University of Mississippi were able to hide away from deserving welfare recipients, only to re-emerge as a sleek volleyball center. As his daughter is on the volleyball team, aside from the nepotism angle, it all smacks of a sickening privilege. Irony of ironies, […]

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