Module 4 Sports Ethics Analysis

Sport’s are an aspect of life that affect societies across the globe. Athletics affect everyone's life, whether that be playing the sport, watching games, or hearing about a sporting event. There is a big difference between playing an individual sport and players relying on their own athletic abilities versus a team sport when members of the team rely on their teammates to complete each individual's specific responsibility to reach the team's goal. Team sports bring people together in countless ways, and they teach many life skills for the athletes that participate in them. Some of these skills include communication, teamwork, discipline, work ethic, dedication, leadership, and numerous more that will help them in their personal and work

The second ethical issue is that the NCAA has not given a full medical coverage for student athletes. If the athlete get insured won’t getting any help. The student athletes and their family worry about serious medical bills to pay for long term. According to Journal of Ethics of the “Nudge” there are three ethical relevant dimensions that need to be consider when using norms, comparisons, and messenger effects to influence health –related decisions or behaviors. The first one is the danger of using norms is that we end up nudging people towards things that are bad for them since often herd mentally and behavior are not particularly wise. For example, most Americans are over weighted and they are under exercise. Also, most athletes could easily

Abstract: Society is affected every day by many different kinds of sports.  These sports often govern society's way of life.  People all over the nation turn their TVs to sporting events, such as golf, during the weekends.   Scott Stossel states that "more than six million Americans enjoy watching golf on the weekends."  Parents  use sports as a teaching tool for their children.  Kids learn teamwork and discipline from team sports programs and  sports have also helped many students with their grades.  Kids who want to compete in school sports are taught to keep their grades up or they won't be able to play, but the greedy coaches and schools often look around grades to keep their "star athletes" in the games.  Adults have

The author began by addressing the lack of literature written regarding ethics in coaching. This statement was made in 2009. In 2016, Dr. Welfel implies the same since this type coaching has grown dramatically in brief period. There is limited research evidence for its effectiveness, the determination of what is competent coaching, or that standards of care are not clearly defined (Welfel, 2016). She further defined “coaching psychology” as enhancing well-being and performance in personal life and work domains underpinned by models of coaching grounded in established learning theory or psychological approaches (Welfel, 2016). Dr. Passmore believed helping coaches think about ethical dilemmas would be prudent.

The study “The Relationship Between Ethical and Abusive Coaching Behaviors and Student-Athlete Well-Being” was conducted by Mariya A. Yukhymenko-Lescroart, Michael E. Brown, and Thomas S. Paskus, and was published in the journal Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology. The researchers sought to understand the effects that a coach’s behavior had on a student’s morals, satisfaction, and impressions of team unity. Social-cognitive theory has long thought that we learn by imitating those around us, particularly those in leadership positions. The coaches of sports teams are especially prominent models in a student athlete’s life, given that they have actual authority over the student’s life. The idea of self-efficacy, which suggests that an

In a culture where sportsmanship is lacking, it is critical that stakeholders in high school athletics work together to reestablish sportsmanship and ethics to the forefront of education-based athletics. In fact, “ The National Federation, the governing body for public high school sports, would like for the number one priority of high school athletics to be GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP” (as cited in Churdar, 2015, p. 2). Sportsmanship means respecting the opponent, the officials, and the game. There are many people and groups who influence the actions and beliefs of athletes either in a positive or negative manner, so it is important that these groups maintain a high view of sportsmanship and take proactive measures to ensure that good sportsmanship is a priority for high school sports.

He received his Ph.D. in Kinesiology from Penn State University, his M.S. in Physical Education from West Chester University and his B.S. in Physical Education from Northwestern College. His academic interests include sport ethics, meaning and physical activity and the historical aspects of sportsmanship and fair play. Hochstetler’s intended audience for this article are those interested in the connections between religion and sport.

“Sportsmanship - Athletes are expected to act with a high level of sportsmanship. They are always in the public eye, both in season and out of season, and should act accordingly. As athletes, others see them as positive role models. With this in mind, they have an obligation to (1) show respect for authority and property; (2) maintain academic eligibility and training rules; and (3) emphasize ideals of sportsmanship, loyalty, ethical conduct and fair play”- NHS Student Handbook 2015-16.

I agree with kidder that If we inhabit on the various differences that are among the interpretations of the one being in the state of good life, we are more easily and likely to miss and lose various similarities. With the absence of these similarities there is a chance of losing the confidence that gives us the ability to receive identification on common points towards interest that are more of agreements that are involved and cut across things such as politics, religion, gender, culture, age and even our history. With kidders perspective he noted that there was a rough consensus that didn’t exist on particular and certain issues. He then came to a conclusion that various societies that

The ethics of sport in Bring It On Bring It On is a movie that brings out the theme of the competitve world of Cheerleading. The 2000 film, Torrance Shipman is the newly elected captain of the Toro cheerleading sqaud. With their killer routines and amazing spirit, they have managed to win the National Championships 5 timez in a row. Unfortunetly for the Toro squad their winning streak might end soon under their new captain. Torrance Chipman finds out a shocking secret.

2. Any activity that gives the athlete a competitive advantage by knowingly violating the rules is morally wrong.

The way a person acts and treats others requires judgement. The decisions people, make in regards to PA is said to fall in an area called ethics. Ethics is a branch of philosophy that examines how we ought to behave. It is different than other area of ethics such as cultural ethics, where attitudes is the main focus. This type of ethics is more directed toward the good or bad actions in PA (pg 142 ). Ethical choices may vary from person to person. If a rule or regulation is in place but others see it as a morally wrong decision. There should be a discussion and a solution with in reason.

Introduction: In the world today, professional sport championships require some new ethics based on which the measurement and evaluation of athletic behaviors could be realized. In the athletics and professional sports which have already become an industry like mercantilism, more and more profit is sought. Habermas’s theory of discourse ethics is an ethical approach based on the principles emphasizing the implications of constructivism and communicative rationality as well as universal principles in the sport championships (1 and 2). The present study aims to explore the impact of the political discourse ethics

Good evening ladies, gentlemen, adjudicators and the opposition. The topic of tonight’s debate is ‘that elite athletes demonstrate acceptable standards of professionalism.’ We, as the negative team, strongly disagree with this. By now our first speaker would have convinced you that elite athletes definitely do not demonstrate acceptable standards of professionalism by revealing that elite athletes are taught to have a ‘win

Sports have advanced very fast similarly to technology. They have been impacting not only the athlete’s lives, but the coaches and spectators also. Milan Hosta has gone on to explain many different topics within the article “Ethics and Sport: Whose Ethics, Which Ethos- A Prolegomenon”. Milan Hosta unclearly gives knowledge to his audience on the ethics in sports, in which it makes the article seem very scattered and unorganized. He begins by giving the reader some background on past ethics in sports and gives the audience questions to think about. Then, he went a little deeper into the ethics of sport and how people ideally see themselves within them; also he used sports science throughout the article. The author then continued to search for methods such as the true morality in sport to help the main topic of ethics in sport, while jumping around getting off topic.