Point of the Game

Conversations on Sports, Ethics and Culture

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Showing posts with label fans. Show all posts
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Sports Ethics: Create a Level Playing Field

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The joy of playing and watching sports depends heavily upon real competition. Competition invokes risk of failure or success. Tr...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Sports Fan Ethics

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Being a sports fan is an existential choice. It involves a way of being in the world and relating to other human beings. The point of the g...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Why Athletes Can't Afford Loyalty

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I watch Bruce Jenner on the Kardashian reality show with appalled sadness. Bruce Jenner once stood as the greatest athlete in the world wi...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Sean Payton's Injury--Never Forget the Violence in Football

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It can all look so clean and strategic on TV. The TV overlays emphasize the patterns and schemas of the football teams. The dangerous combin...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The Difference between Fans, Spectators and Audiences

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I have a friend who attends all the basketball games at University of Washington. He endlessly works the sidelines. "Nice shot, Q....
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J. Patrick Dobel
I teach at the University of Washington where I served as the faculty athletic representative. I created Point of the Game as a chance to reflect upon upon the role of sport in our society. Point of the Game seeks to be a conversation about about the nature of ethics in athletics and its relation to our human condition.
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