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, […]
Continue Reading →(Notes from Chuck Gallagher, Sports Ethics Keynote Speaker: When we presented this case a few months ago, a number of business people asked, “Why are athletes so crooked?” Though about 10% of PPP money was taken fraudulently (nearly $12 billion), most was stolen by small and large businesses, healthcare facilities and associations. Allison Baver is one story of poor choices and their consequences.) If a Hollywood producer sought to make a movie about an athlete’s fall from Grace, I might recommend the life of Allison Baver. It would not be […]
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