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 →(Last evening, as we watched a Sunday night game, the NFL had a public service type announcement in support of mental health. We believe, quite strongly, that mental health should be a national priority. That said, what is the NFL [or any league] doing to prioritize treatment for its own athletes? The following article was originally posted in by Chuck Gallagher in March 2022.) What is the biggest sucker bet in sports? Would you like a minute or two to guess? I’ll save you the trouble: the biggest sucker bet […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
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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