Posts Tagged Sports Ethics Consultant

Beyond ugly: Rape at the Paralympic Games

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

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 the Portland Thorns must matter to all of us

As a sports ethics keynote speaker, sports ethics consultant and co-author of Monday Morning Ethics, my heart is invested in ethical choices and consequences. As grandfather to girls, my heart is invested in their future happiness. Whether they become athletes — or not, is not relevant; that they have an equal chance to compete in all phases of life, is both my desire and my cause. Every time I think society has “arrived,” something comes along to discourage my optimism. The Portland Thorns Before touching on the key points of […]

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Should Sports Ethics Matter to a D1 Athlete?

A sports ethics friend sent a text and asked if I had heard about the University of Nebraska Huskers safety who was arrested last week for a DUI? At the time it was kind of absurd, because my residence is in South Carolina and my friend lives outside of Cleveland. How did he hear about a DUI involving a Nebraska player? It was apparently on ESPN and other national sites. In these times — and forever more — nothing is local. He couldn’t remember the name of the player so […]

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Is Cornhole a sport? Does it make a difference?

Cornhole, much like horseshoes, bocce ball or shuffleboard may not be considered much of a sport, but as a sports ethics keynote speaker, sports ethics consultant and book author, I know cornhole is well on its way to being legitimized. How do I know this, because it is already embroiled in a major scandal. Yes, there are professional Corn-holer’s and they make a lot of money Professional cornhole players may bring down as much as $250K a year. Whatever you think the “sport” may be, guys who may have never […]

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Hope Solo needs help, not judgement

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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Brett Favre is Worrying Me

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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