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Who Commits Sports Fraud?

By on January 28, 2023   /   Uncategorized   /   Leave a comment
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Who is the person most likely to commit sports fraud? Is there an established profile? A race or religion or gender? What do the studies say and what have I learned after speaking to audiences for more than 25 years? The answer, as you may suspect, is that no profile exists. Virtually anyone, from the character in the school mascot suit to the athletic director or team doctor for that matter, can commit fraud. Indeed, in recent sports history there has been a mascot who sold drugs (what a cover!) […]

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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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The African Sports Fraud Scheme

By on December 15, 2022   /   Fraud   /   Leave a comment
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In Mid-November, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the State of Massachusetts, arrested Adrian Kawuba for defrauding investors who believed they were financing sports in Africa and other nations. Kawuba guaranteed investors a return on their money in exchange for financing higher-risk, short term ventures. According to the prosecuting attorneys: “Kawuba allegedly used the money to pay for luxury goods and to pay purported returns to his investors – in some instances paying back an investor’s earlier investment with money that investors had just sent Kawuba for a new investment.” In […]

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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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Sexual harassment charges indirectly hit coach

By on December 6, 2022   /   Coaching Issues, Women's Soccer   /   Leave a comment
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As a sports ethics and business ethics motivational speaker and consultant, I must often talk to groups on the topics of sexual harassment and abuse. It’s a damn shame. As we approach 2023, I am often surprised at the lack of awareness on these topics, especially among athletes and coaches. The Portland Thorns The Thorns (women’s soccer) have had more than their share of documented off-the-field problems. It speaks to an ethical and managerial breakdown top to bottom, but for this post I want to address the topic of sexual […]

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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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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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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 Business People Like Sports Ethics

By on October 29, 2022   /   Uncategorized   /   Leave a comment
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As a Sports Ethics and Business Ethics keynote speaker, I began to see an interesting confluence take place several years ago. For the life of me, I cannot remember “exactly when,” but I do know the phenomenon reached an ongoing crescendo of public interest when running back Ray Rice was pictured beating his wife in 2014. This was followed by the full explosion of Bill Cosby case (a most beloved Hollywood star), and then Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul who accused of sexual harassment and abuse in 2017. The Phenomenon […]

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