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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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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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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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