The Controversy Of Corruption In The Sports Industry

Edwin J. Delattre describes in “Some Reflections on Success and failure in Competitive Athletics” that competitive athletics require a touchstone relationship of competitors’ i.e. that competitors have a moral and logical obligation to not engage in cheating. Competitive sports leagues and organizations have taken several measures to achieve competitive balance or fairness in regards to the spirit of competition. Competitive leagues have implemented the draft process to ensure that teams with the worst records are able to acquire top draft pick players to help improve losing teams, and salary caps to prevent a select few teams from acquiring all of the talented players and depriving the rest of the league from being able

Gambling has an adverse impact on the individual athlete's or coach's integrity. Reputation diminishes, and the athlete becomes better known for participation in gambling activities than for athletic feats and career accomplishments. Gambling scandals can ruin careers, and permanently mar the individual's ability to participate in the sport again. As Finley, Finley & Fountain (n.d.). point out, gambling also has the potential to ruin the integrity of the entire team, league, or whole sport. "Ensuring an honest and uncorrupted game has been one of the biggest challenges facing sport," (Finley, Finley & Fountain, n.d., p. 41). Baseball in particular has been plagued by gambling scandals. However, other professional sports have also revealed the prevalence of widespread corruption. Finley, Finley & Fountain (n.d.) also note that gambling on college sports has been a problem since the CCNY point-shaving scandal of the 1950s. Point shaving proved lucrative enough for high-profile black market gambling syndicates to flourish. Although most players, coaches, and teams are not corrupt, the few that are have sullied the image of all sports.

Many famous individuals in sports have tried to cheat their way out huge contracts with the help of substances that enhance their abilities. When fans’ trust is being played because of this act of insult to the culture of sports, it should bring shame to the individuals who took part in the accident. Many athletes have been caught and have received punishment, minor punishments, but there shall be more that are willing to try to take the risk. A solution to this matter is to end the individual’s contract ,or just distribute the money to many charities that need the money or to help the community. Have a bingo game with the money that the team is giving to the player. Each time increasing the winning

The Baseball World Series of 1919 involved the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds (Linder, 2010). The Series was an exciting exchange that boiled down to the last game, which was taken by the victorious Cincinnati Reds (Linder, 2010). However, a year later, news broke that the game was rigged by the Chicago White Sox (Linder, 2010). They threw the game in order to receive a large payout, which was never given (Linder, 2010). The eight players involved disgraced the sport and the American public (Linder, 2010). In today’s world of sports, scandals continue to happen. A recent example is the doping scandal of the United States Postal Service Pro Cycling Team and, their captain, Lance Armstrong. While the US Postal Service team’s doping does not seem to be connected to the White Sox’s gambling problem, they share many similarities.

In Chapter 18 of Social Issues in Sport, Woods mentions how the first encounter with performance-enhancing drugs dates back to ancient times. This portrays how the usage of these drugs has become common within the sports world. Despite the fact that using performance-enhancing drugs is unfair in sport, I feel that it portrays the risk athletes are willing to take to win and be the best. This week we learned about the serious consequences that occur if an athlete is caught taking these medications. The consequences of taking these drugs range from getting their awards confiscated to legal action. There are similar consequences when it comes to situations involving the act of bribery. For example, during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the entire committee was replaced because of allegations that members were trying to influence voters through illegal means. Thus, when it comes to cheating in sport, it is not only athletes who engage in this deviant behavior, but also outside

I thought the video did an amazing job in breaking down the politics in sports. The video puts the rest to the myth that sports and politics don’t mix. Politics in sports is especially evident with the military aircraft before games, or having presidents in games. The video challenged me to rethink the cultural politics of sport and its impact on everyday life. Though I normally don’t watch sports, I have a better appreciation for athletes who sacrifice their careers to help others. Jack Johnson and Jackie Robinson risked their lives to play in sports. I thought Tommie Smith and John Carlos, along with Muhammad Ali, were brave to risk their careers and lives to do the right thing. Kathy Switzer, another great example, risked her life for a

The phenomenon of the blood doping in professional sports is not new; however, it remains prevalent in sports culture. With new techniques being designed to avoid detection, it could be argued that the prohibition of sports enhancing drugs in the professional sports mirror the prohibition of alcohol, making for unsafe, unsanitary and black market drug erupt. Instead of prohibition, could the professional sports community limitations in order to better allocate their money? There are great incentives to use blood doping techniques with little by way of repercussions.

Office of the Attorney General says Blatter is suspected of criminal mismanagement or misappropriation over a TV rights deal he signed with former Caribbean football chief Warner in 2005, and suspected of "a disloyal payment" in 2011 of two millions Swiss francs (£1.35million on current exchange rates) to Platini for work allegedly carried out by the Frenchman between 1999 and 2002.” The corruption of FIFA is the most corrupt at the top where all the executive decisions are made. Another top executive in FIFA admitted to the accusations. “I abused my position to obtain bribes and kickbacks for my personal benefit,” Webb, who suffers from a heart condition, told the judge in pleading guilty to seven counts and confessing to enriching himself from 2012 to 2014.” The people with the most power at the top of the FIFA organization have been abusing their powers for their own personal agendas and no one did anything about it until the United States stepped

In May 2015, U.S. federal prosecutors released cases of corruption by officials and associates connected to FIFA, the governing body of all football. Nine current or former FIFA figures and five involved in sports marketing, were connected to wire fraud, racketeering, and money laundering. They were indicted on suspicion of receiving $150 million in bribes. The investigation focused on the officials that were bribed for their vote on the host of the next two World Cups that landed in Russia for 2018 and Qatar for 2022. Soccer federation officials were warned of the intense heat in Qatar months before Qatar won its bid for the 2022 World Cup. Because of the extreme heat in Qatar, human rights groups also warned FIFA that building the World

Are you competitive? He is competitive. When he first got into sports he thought It would be fun, people will be cheering him on and he get’s to play with his friends. Ones he started to win in these sports his appetite to win slowly increased. Over time he started to get better and better, he started to win more and more. He trained 5 times a week to get better and better. He wanted to make his parents proud.

As early as I can remember I have always been fascinated by sports. Growing up in Bronx, New York permitted me to have amazing access to a host of professional sports teams. From the rivalry of the New York Yankees commonly referenced as the Bronx Bombers with their cross-town counterparts the New York Mets. The city also plays host to the New York Giants and New York Jets (who technically reside in New Jersey), the New York Rangers, New York Islanders, New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets, and New York Liberty (part of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)).

I don't find that an agent representing more than one athlete on the same team to be unethical. From the agent’s perspective, it is important for him to build his clientele thus building his reputation amongst athletes. When an athlete hires an agent, they trust that person to handle almost all aspects of their career, which includes negotiating endorsement deals, career advice, contract negotiations, and concierge services. Also, if a few players share the same agent on the same team, it could potentially build chemistry between the athletes as far as communicating in the locker room.

According to Dr. Charles E. Yesalis, a professor health and human development at Penn St. University, "drug use among athletes has gone dramatically up in recent years. Athletes also are becoming more venturesome about mixing different types of drugs. One reason is that new drugs keep coming on the market, and some turn out to be of help in giving athletes a competitive edge. Sports officials feel they have no choice but to try to combat drug use in sports with every legitimate weapon at their command. They are motivated in part by concern for athletes' well being. Most performance-enhancing agents have side effects that can pose an immediate or long-range threat to health. But the officials are driven by self-interest too. If the public perceive major sports to be hopelessly drug-ridden, attendance and television viewership is likely to plummet. And thatcould lead to financial ruin for athletes and promoters alike. The monetary stakes are higher today than ever before. Many of the top athletes damned very high salaries, and a select few demand huge additional sums for product endorsement. Pro team owners, meanwhile, are constantly scrambling for more income from broadcasting and other sources to meet their massive payrolls and still turn a profit. A series of drug scandals might well cause media outlets and corporate sponsors

Envision attending a game of your favorite sports team, already knowing who the winner of the match. How fun would that be to watch? Whether you are betting real money on the game or not, the game would be boring to watch. The possibility of this attending such a scenario does exist for the FIFA world cup provided that FIFA’s corruption is allowed to keep manifesting. FIFA, also known as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association and the governing body of soccer, who creates and outlines the rules of the games, is suspected of corruption and it could potentially harm the quality of soccer games. If this happens, the social and fun aspect of the world cup would be entirely diminished. Think of if this happens to your favorite sport. You’re throwing a barbeque party celebrating the superbowl, and you know the Patriots are going to win this year. Not because you believe in their skill but because it has all been staged. This leads me to my main point, if FIFA’s alleged corruption continues to knowingly grow and something isn’t done, it will hinder the prestige the FIFA World Cup. While some may argue soccer has become an important part of many countries history and FIFA has become “too big to fail,” if matches become more about bribes, politics, and personal bias in a game where outcomes should be decided by skill, people will lose interest. You might think that this doesn’t matter and it is only soccer. But in reality, FIFA’s corruption is hurting people too. Did

Football’s (Soccer) world governing body, FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), has been involved in very strong issue of corruption. Clamming the career of the two most powerful men in football, president of FIFA Sepp Blatter, and Michael Platini president of UEFA (The Union of Europeans Football Associations). Both of them were accused of disloyal payment. According to the U.S.A department of justice, who indicated top executives including Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, FIFA and UEFA presidents at that time.