Notes on Contributors ix

Foreword by Dean Smith xv

Preface xvi

Acknowledgments xviii

Introduction - The Moral Significance of Sport 1
Jan Boxill

Part I: Sport and Education

1. Sports, Relativism, and Moral Education 16
Robert L. Simon

2. Why Everyone Deserves a Sporting Chance: Education, Justice, and School Sports 29
Janice Moulton

3. Moral Development and Sport: Character and Cognitive Developmentalism Contrasted 40
Carwyn Jones and Michael McNamee

4. Philosopher in the Playground: Notes on the Meaning of Sport 53
Peter Heinegg

5. Foul Play: Sports Metaphors as Public Doublespeak 56
Francine Hardaway

Part II: Sport and Sportsmanship

6. Sportsmanship as a Moral Category 63
James W. Keating

7. Three Approaches Toward an Understanding of Sportsmanship 72
Peter J. Arnold

8. Deception, Sportsmanship, and Ethics 81
Kathleen M. Pearson

9. On Sportsmanship and "Running up the Score" 84
Nicholas Dixon

10. Sportmanship and Blowouts: Baseball and Beyond 95
Randolph M. Feezell

Part III: Sport and Competition

11. The Ethics of Competition 107
Jan Boxill

12. On Winning and Athletic Superiority 116
Nicholas Dixon

13. In Defense of Winning 130
R. Scott Kretchmar

14. Winding Down, Looking Ahead 136
Dean Smith

15. Personal Best 144
W. M. Brown

16. Fair Play as Respect for the Game 153
Robert Butcher and Angela Schneider

Part IV: Sport and Drugs

17. Good Competition and Drug-Enhanced Performance 175
Robert L. Simon

18. Enhancing Performance in Sports: What is Morally Permissible? 182
Laura Morgan

19. Sports and Drugs: Are Current Bans Justified? 189
Michael Lavin

Part V: Sport and Violence

20. What is Sports Violence? 199
Michael Smith

21. Values and Violence in Sports Today: The Moral Reasoning Athletes Use in Their Games and in their Lives 217
Brenda Jo Bredemeier, David L. Shields, Jack C. Horn

22. Violence and Sports
Robert E. Leach

Part VI: Sport and Gender

23. Sex Equality in Sports 225
Jane English

24. Human Equality in Sports 230
Peter S. Wenz

25. Gender Equity and Inequity in Athletics 240
Robert L. Simon.

26. Title IX and Gender Equity 254
Jan Boxill

27. Why Women do Better than Men in College Basketball, or "What is Collegiate Sport for, Anyway?" 262
Nicholas Hunt-Bull

28. Women, Self-Possession, and Sport 267
Catharine MacKinnon

29. Stronger Women 273
Mariah Burton Nelson

30, The Sports Closet 289
Liz Galst

Part VII: Sport and Racial Issues

31. Racial Differences in Sports: What's Ethics Got To Do With It? 297
Albert Mosely

32. Race and College Sport: A Long Way to Go 304
Richard E. Lapchick

33. Sport and Stereotype: From Role Model to Muhammad Ali 310
Mike Marqusee

Part VIII: Sport and Role Models

34. Do Celebrated Athletes have Special Responsibilities to be Good Role Models? An Imagined Dialog between Charles Barkley and Karl Malone 333
Christopher Wellman

35. Get the Message? 337
Rick Reilly

Index 339

'Sports Ethics is a cleverly compiled anthology that
clearly addresses the main issues facing sport today. Previously
published classical arguments by highly respected sport
philosophers are augmented by ten new articles written specifically
for this anthology. This is topical, well organized and insightful
- an excellent addition to the literature.' John M.
Charles, The College of William and Mary

'The selections in this volume give a powerful statement
of the common practices in sport which negate the values that sport
is supposed to instill: justice, respect, responsibility, and
honesty. In addition, Dean Smith's foreword offers a thoughtful,
pragmatic point of view which often is lost in theoretical
work.' Sharon Kay Stoll, University of Idaho

Jan Boxill is Associate Chair and Lecturer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Issues in Racism and Sexism (2000).

J. Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill