Professional Athletes – General

Let’s not be smug about the WNBA

I suppose I could have entitled this post “Some Controversy before New Year’s,” but whatever the title, I think it’s an ethical issue that needs exploration. To push the hypertension needle ever higher, I feel the NBA, sponsors and owners could potentially kick-in a lot more to the subsidy pool. If that isn’t workable, how about tax considerations? The issue is not one of men versus women or professionalism versus “almost professional” or even above the rim versus below, or any other argument Sports Ethics has heard this way and that. The […]

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Trevor Bauer and an Abuse “Denial”

Trevor Bauer, the LA pitcher who was suspended for 324 games, for violating the MLB’s sexual assault policy, was reinstated into the league’s “fold.” His suspension was cut to 194 games. The Cy Young Award winning pitcher was accused of sexual assault in 2021. He continues to maintain the encounters were consensual. Bauer returns to the field this season, with his pay “docked” for the first 50 games. The Dodgers have until January 6, 2023 to decide to play or trade. The fans appear to be divided. According to CNN […]

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NFL Leaks May Help Gruden

As a sports ethics motivational speaker and sports ethics consultant, I am consistent in my insistence that no employee of a sports organization should ever try to “take the fall” or assist in the covering up of unethical behavior. When any kind of cover-up occurs, it always comes back to haunt the person who thought they were being the good guy, the model employee or the assistant insider to the assistant coach. An employee cannot work their way up that way; not a DIII line coach or someone in marketing […]

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Deshaun Watson’s apologists step-up

Other than the “Kars for Kids” jingle, we can think of possibly no other song as obnoxious as the 1974 classic, “Feelings.” It is possibly the most over-sung song in the history of Karaoke. We recall the song under the strangest of conditions, as the Houston Texans (currently at 1-9-1) prepare to take on the Cleveland Browns (at 4-7). The game, under normal conditions, would be a sleeper. You would clean the bathroom floor or check the dog for fleas during a game of this diminished magnitude. Caveat: I have […]

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Why the Portland Thorns must matter to all of us

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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