Sports Ethics

Trevor Bauer and an Abuse “Denial”

By on December 27, 2022   /   Major League Baseball, MLB, Professional Athletes - General, Sports Ethics   /   Leave a comment
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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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Sports has always been linked to politics

By on December 16, 2022   /   Coaching Issues, Sports Business, Sports Ethics, Sports Management, Sports Media, World Cup Soccer   /   Leave a comment
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In our recent Op-Ed piece that appeared in the International Business Times (December 12, 2022), we stated: “You cannot keep politics out of sport, not on the world stage, not when it involves basic human rights, and certainly not when the governing bodies of those sports have their hands so deeply in governments’ pockets.” We were referring to #FIFA and the attempt of the organization to remove human rights issues from the #WorldCup and from the country of #Qatar. As a sports ethics keynote speaker and sports ethics consultant, I was surprised by some of the feedback […]

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NFL Leaks May Help Gruden

By on December 10, 2022   /   NFL, NFL Football, Professional Athletes - General, Sports Business, Sports Ethics, Sports Management   /   Leave a comment
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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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NIL Deals: Nice, shaky and miserable

By on December 2, 2022   /   Fraud, Sports Business, Sports Ethics, Sports Management, Sports Media   /   Leave a comment
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There are rumors stemming from people associated with D1 schools in Texas of of illegal payments from alumni to athletes under the guise of ‘Name, Image, Likeness.’ In addition, it is alleged that athletes are making local deals with restaurants are often not aware there are huge tax implications on any money earned. These athletes separate small amounts of money paid (sort of) under-the-table, and big deals with major companies. Undoubtedly, financial “advisors” looking to take advantage of the naivete of the athletes. In an article by Laine Higgins for […]

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Deshaun Watson’s apologists step-up

By on December 1, 2022   /   NFL, NFL Football, Professional Athletes - General, Sports Business, Sports Ethics, Sports Management, Sports Media   /   Leave a comment
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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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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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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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