Whether it is performance enhancing drugs, fighting or
illegal recruitment practices, deviance in sports can be found at any level and
sometimes too often. Class discussion on
November 8th and 10th revolved around the behaviors that
coaches and players partake in within the sport industry and how it effects the
integrity of the game. In this article
from Sport Business Journal, Richard E. Lapchick writes about everything from
PEDs to sport stories related to human trafficking.
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| www.smh.com.au |
The most interesting part about this article is the fact
that Lapchick himself teaches an ethics in sports class at the University of
Central Florida. It makes it clear that
deviance is a major problem in sports and is an important topic that is covered
by sport management programs all over the country. Lapchick also serves as director of the
Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the university and also
touches on our class discussions related to diversity.
From May 2016 alone, Lapchick talks about the Russian doping
scandal before the 2016 Rio Summer Games, as well as the 23 American athletes
(at the time) that would possible miss out on the chance to compete. Next, the article covers how sports often
come before academics in higher education, and highlight the illegal
recruitment practices we discussed in regard to both deviance in sports as
well as interscholastic sports earlier in the semester. Lapchick ends the article with additional
issues in sport like concussions as well as sexism in sport which we discussed
during our sexist advertisement activity in class. These trends continue to grow within the
industry, so what can sport organizations do to decrease these deviances?
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