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Our Cheating Culture   Soaring paychecks for top professional athletes and pharmacological advances have conspired to   increase the prevalence of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports in recent years

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Our Cheating Culture

 

Soaring paychecks for top professional athletes and pharmacological advances have conspired to

 

increase the prevalence of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports in recent years.

 

Individual athletes face tough ethical choices about how to get ahead amid systematic cheating

 

and gross pay inequities among athletes -- with cheaters often getting the biggest rewards.

 

This assignment will challenge you to focus on Today’s Global Sporting Environment and the

 

current ethical violations that are taking place. Any sport at any level will work, as long as you

 

identify the ethical violation that is taking place within that sport. You will see that we face

 

similar moral challenges at all levels of sport. One example could be “Deflate-Gate” where you

 

could examine how the NFL operates, or you could ask why a Little League team who illegally

 

recruited players, had vacate their national title. The IOC has done their best to test athletes for

 

PED’s during the summer and winter Olympics, while professional cycling has battled a culture

 

of cheating for decades.

 

 

What area of sports are you interested in? What are the major ethical violations taking place

 

within that sport? Think globally, and take a look at sports from around the world; PED’s are

 

only the surface of the violations taking place. Referees and players have been caught fixing

 

matches, or tanking on purpose. Is winning, while consciously covering the spread cheating?

 

What about transgender athletes, or able bodied athletes competing at the Paralympics?

 

Start by looking at your favorite sports for examples, and expand your search to the international

 

level from there.

 

 

Topic Content:

 

Start by identifying at least 5 ethical violations in 5 different sports.

 

Identify how each cheated, what their punishment was, and was the punishment enough?

 

Is this a trend in the chosen sport sport, or is their behavior systemic in their field?

 

Discuss how their actions overall have affected the sport, and what if anything they can do to

 

regain the trust of the public eye. 

 

You can use ANY sport to complete this project, and as always support your content with

 

sources, and in-text citations.   

 

Delivery:

 

Create a Written report that outlines each of your chosen ethical violations, and address each of

 

the items listed above as applied to each example. Your paper should also include an

 

introduction that briefly describes why you selected the 5 topics, and why they are of importance

 

to the sporting industry. Your paper should also include a comprehensive conclusion. Where

 

are the common trends across your 5 topics, and why do you believe this to be? Are these trends

 

fading, or growing in popularity, and do you expect these trends to surface in other areas of

 

sport?

 

 

Explain your thoughts in your conclusion, and as always provide support for your ideas with

 

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quality resources. Use the Sports Business Journal for at least one of your topics. Each project

 

should be a minimum of 8 pages long, and submitted through the provided LiveText Link. This

 

is a checkpoint assignment, therefor this assignment also needs to be submitted through Live

 

Text, using the appropriate assignment link. Support your opinion with facts, and use APA

 

format when citing your sources in the body of your work, as well as when listing your

 

references.