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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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Let’s not be smug about the WNBA

By on January 1, 2023   /   Div 1 Women's Sports, NCAA Women's Basketball, Professional Athletes - General   /   Leave a comment
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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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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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Brittney Griner, Choices and Consequences

By on December 8, 2022   /   Uncategorized   /   Leave a comment
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We saw President Biden at the news conference, surrounded by the usual cast of smiling politicians. Brittney Griner has been freed, no small task given the war in Ukraine and the ice-cold relationship between Biden and Putin. We are happy for Griner and her wife, sad for journalist Paul Whelan who was left behind, and angry that a notorious Russian arms dealer, a man indirectly responsible for many deaths was freed to ply his trade once again. In the larger scheme of things, in the greater human drama, it is […]

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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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Mr. Crypto takes a mega-flop

By on December 3, 2022   /   Uncategorized   /   Leave a comment
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The latest murmurs from the financial and legal worlds suggest that the disgraced FTX cryptocurrency founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, could be facing a huge chunk of jail time. Some say, “Life.” Many compare him to former Ponzi scheme guru Bernie Madoff. Bankman-Fried appears to have memory problems; when asked, he allegedly has no recollection of what happened to large chunks of investor money. By “large,” we are referring to billions. However, the one thing the FTX company seems to have been successful at is in the area of sports sponsorships. Sam Bankman-Fried […]

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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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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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He said and she said, and there goes reputation

By on November 18, 2022   /   NBA, NBA Basketball, Uncategorized   /   Leave a comment
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The situation resulting in the San Antonio Spurs terminating Joshua Primo is a classic case of He Said/She Said that never needed to happen. That said, he is 19-years-old and by his own admission has emotional issues. As a keynote speaker on Sports Ethics, I know all too well that there are situations athletes face that are at once confusing and frightening where a more mature intercession might have helped. The psychologist and the athlete At the heart of the matter, a trained psychologist claimed the young man had exposed […]

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