Jack Bowen guests in a podcast of The Sports Ethics Show discussing the boundaries of the rules of sport. Listen to the podcast.
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Jack Bowen guests in a podcast of The Sports Ethics Show discussing the boundaries of the rules of sport. Listen to the podcast.
This week, Jack appears as a guest on “The Sports Ethics Show” to discuss his previous two blog posts, along with “Deflation-Gate” and, in general, what results when athletes push the boundaries of a sport, for better or worse. To…
The New England Patriots’ head coach Bill Belichick is known to many for his infamous Spy-gate 2007, in which he videotaped the play-calls of other teams, earning the largest fine ever imposed on a coach by the league. The act…
With 45 seconds remaining in December’s Miami Beach Bowl, BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall burned two consecutive timeouts in an attempt to ice the Memphis kicker on a point after kick to tie the game. The double-icing failed and Memphis went…
This past weekend I was invited to speak at the Water Polo Coaches Association National Conference at UCSD, held in conjunction with the NCAA Championships. As I did at last year’s conference, I spoke on two issues near to my…
Many have commented to me over the past weeks, something to the tune of, “You must be busy writing about sport ethics issues these days!” While true, it’s not true in the sense they imagine. There certainly are some profoundly…
What follows is a transcript of the audience comments during our Interactive Session at the 5th Annual Sports Law & Ethics Symposium. While audience members spoke I transcribed their comments in a live feed on the screens. As you’ll see,…
“Today,” I began, standing behind the podium at Santa Clara University’s Fifth Annual Sports Law & Ethics Symposium, “I am the moderator.” I let the comment float amongst the audience as they looked at the empty seats on stage which…
A youth sports team provides the unique opportunity to have a group of adolescents sit together—boys, no less—look each other in the eye, and discuss some of life’s most important issues, all from a place of trust. It’s actually quite…
To help us cope with the minor setbacks and injustices in life, we have developed certain aphoristic tidbits. Displayed often on bumper stickers and t-shirts, they include sayings like “It is what it is,” or the French version “C’est la…