Essays discuss ethical issues in sports, including violence, cheating, sportsmanship, drug use, racism, and gender. * Examines ethical issues in sports, such as sportsmanship, violence, cheating, drug use, racism, sexism, and gender equity. * Includes essays by psychologists, sociologists, coaches, and sports writers. * Gives the reader an understanding of the moral significance of sport, and how sports affect society. . Notes on Contributors ix Foreword xv Dean Smith Preface xvi Acknowledgments xviii Introduction: The Moral Significance of Sport 1(14) Jan Boxill I Sport and Education Sports, Relativism, and Moral Education 15(14) Robert L. Simon Why Everyone Deserves a Sporting Chance: Education, Justice, and School Sports 29(11) Janice Moulton Moral Development and Sport: Character and Cognitive Developmentalism Contrasted 40(13) Carwyn Jones Mike McNamee Philosopher in the Playground: Notes on the Meaning of Sport 53(3) Peter Heinegg Foul Play: Sports Metaphors as Public Doublespeak 56(7) Francine Hardaway II Sport and Sportspersonship Sportsmanship as a Moral Category 63(9) James W. Keating Three Approaches Toward an Understanding of Sportsmanship 72(9) Peter J. Arnold Deception, Sportsmanship, and Ethics 81(3) Kathleen M. Pearson On Sportsmanship and ``Running up the Score'' 84(11) Nicholas Dixon Sportsmanship and Blowouts: Baseball and Beyond 95(12) Randolph M. Feezell III Sport and Competition The Ethics of Competition 107(9) Jan Boxill On Winning and Athletic Superiority 116(14) Nicholas Dixon In Defense of Winning 130(6) R. Scott Kretchmar Winding Down, Looking Ahead 136(8) Dean Smith Personal Best 144(9) W.M. Brown Fair Play as Respect for the Game 153(22) Robert Butcher Angela Schneider IV Sport and Drugs Good Competition and Drug-Enhanced Performance 175(7) Robert L. Simon Enhancing Performance in Sports: What is Morally Permissible? 182(7) Laura Morgan Sports and Drugs: Are the Current Bans Justified? 189(10) Michael Lavin V Sport and Violence What is Sports Violence? 199(18) Michael Smith Values and Violence in Sports Today: The Moral Reasoning Athletes Use in their Games and in their Lives 217(4) Brenda Jo Bredemeier David L. Shields Jack C. Horn Violence and Sports 221(4) Robert E. Leach VI Sport and Gender Sex Equality in Sports 225(5) Jane English Human Equality in Sports 230(10) Peter S. Wenz Gender Equity and Inequity in Athletics 240(14) Robert L. Simon Title IX and Gender Equity 254(8) Jan Boxill Why Women do Better than Men in College Basketball, or ``What is Collegiate Sport for, Anyway?'' 262(5) Nicholas Hunt-Bull Women, Self-Possession, and Sport 267(6) Catharine MacKinnon Stronger Women 273(16) Mariah Burton Nelson The Sports Closet 289(8) Liz Galst VII Sport and Racial Issues Racial Differences in Sports: What's Ethics Got to Do With It? 297(7) Albert Mosley Race and College Sport: A Long Way to Go 304(6) Richard E. Lapchick Sport and Stereotype: From Role Model to Muhammad Ali 310(23) Mike Marqusee VIII Sport and Role Models Do Celebrated Athletes have Special Responsibilities to be Good Role Models? An Imagined Dialog between Charles Barkley and Karl Malone 333(4) Christopher Wellman Get the Message? 337(2) Rick Reilly Index 339