News Sources: Pro Sports Face Ethical Quandries
America's top three professional sports - football, basketball and baseball - are each operating under ethical clouds. In the National Football League, Atlanta quarterback Michael Vick has been indicted for suspected involvement in a dog-fighting ring. National Basketball Association referee Tim Donaghy has been indicted for betting on games in which he officiated. And Major League Baseball is puzzling over how to observe the upcoming breaking of Hank Aaron's home run record by Barry Bonds, who is entangled in an investigation over steroid use.
Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the www.collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):
Nicholas Dixon - Associate Professor of Philosophy, Alma College - Dixon is a native of England native who specializes in applied ethics. In sports-related national and international forums, he has shared sportsmanship views on running up scores ok, losing by wide margins no disgrace and boxing banning blows to the head. In 1995, he had an article published in Journal of the Philosophy of Sport and Philosophical Inquiry in Sport.
Julio Rodriguez - Visiting Scholar of American Culture, Randolph-Macon Woman's College - A lifelong baseball fan, Rodriguez recently co-taught an intensive summer seminar dealing with sport and American culture. His Ph.D. studies focused on the intersection of race, masculinity and sport at various key moments in American history.
Frank Kirkpatrick - Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Professor of Religion, Trinity College - An exceptionally articulate speaker on morality, ethics and community issues, Kirkpatrick co-authored the book, Living Issues in Ethics 1982, which examines recurring social, economic and political themes in life and news. Kirkpatrick has spoken in the media on such topics as business ethics, environmental issues, sexuality, school prayer, political correctness, political campaigns and foreign policy.
Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the www.collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):
Nicholas Dixon - Associate Professor of Philosophy, Alma College - Dixon is a native of England native who specializes in applied ethics. In sports-related national and international forums, he has shared sportsmanship views on running up scores ok, losing by wide margins no disgrace and boxing banning blows to the head. In 1995, he had an article published in Journal of the Philosophy of Sport and Philosophical Inquiry in Sport.
Julio Rodriguez - Visiting Scholar of American Culture, Randolph-Macon Woman's College - A lifelong baseball fan, Rodriguez recently co-taught an intensive summer seminar dealing with sport and American culture. His Ph.D. studies focused on the intersection of race, masculinity and sport at various key moments in American history.
Frank Kirkpatrick - Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Professor of Religion, Trinity College - An exceptionally articulate speaker on morality, ethics and community issues, Kirkpatrick co-authored the book, Living Issues in Ethics 1982, which examines recurring social, economic and political themes in life and news. Kirkpatrick has spoken in the media on such topics as business ethics, environmental issues, sexuality, school prayer, political correctness, political campaigns and foreign policy.
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