Dialogue- Sports and Society

It seems like you can't open the sports page these days without seeing some reference to some athlete involved in some illegal or immoral act. In fact, this year alone, the sporting world has been rocked with charges involving rape, doping, internal gambling, pandering, prostitution, cheating, drunk driving and dog fighting. And that's just the beginning. Should that really surprise us? After all, athletes are members of society, just like you and me. And society is anything but perfect. Why do we expect our athletes to operate on a different moral plane? And are we justified in doing so? These are just a few of the questions host Matt Shafer Powell poses to his guest on Dialogue. Dr. Fritz Polite is the head of the Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Diversity in Sport at the University of Tennessee...

Posted by mpowell7 at November 7, 2007 01:00 PM | Links to this post
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