Would the Intervention Approach Help Transgressors?
An excellent article last year by Kurt Streeter of the Los Angeles Times claimed that traditional methods to help prevent athletes from cheating haven’t worked. “We’ve tried blame. We’ve tried shame....
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Derek Jeter Theater
Illustration by Wing-Yee Lee On September 15th, when the New York Yankees were playing the Tampa Bay Rays, pitcher Chad Qualls threw an inside pitch that seemed to hit Derek Jeter on the left arm....
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Is Derek Jeter right? Is pretending to be hit by a pitch part of the game? See the results of this poll here. For details on this story, read Derek Jeter Theater.
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If You Can’t Beat ’Em… Drug ’Em?
Illustration by Wing-Yee Lee Sometimes the line between sportsmanship and gamesmanship is blurry. This story is not about one of those times. In mid-October, when two second-division Peruvian soccer...
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USADA survey asks what sport means in America
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency recently conducted a survey to determine the meaning and value of sport in our society. The results – based on nearly 9,000 online surveys completed by children, adults,...
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There’s stealing, and then there’s stealing
Illustration by Wing-Yee Lee In baseball, as in other sports, sometimes the line between gamesmanship and cheating is blurry. In terms of stealing signs, Amy K. Nelson of ESPN The Magazine writes,...
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