"Sport Offends Us"

"In spite of the fact that competitive sports take up more and more of our consciousness these days, scandals, we like it less,” says Joel Nathan Rosen, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology at Moravian College, in his timely new book, The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudes Toward Competition. From doping scandals, to exorbitant salaries, from point shaving to from bad behavior, " there seems to be more talk about what's wrong with sport than about sporting events themselves," Rosen says. "Sport offends us."