Point of the Game

Conversations on Sports, Ethics and Culture

Monday, August 18, 2014

Thank you and Goodbye

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Five years ago I began writing about athletics, culture and ethics. At the time I served as the Faculty Athletic Representative for the U...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Sports Ethics: Why is Winning So Important? Part I & II

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I believe almost all the moral ugliness that mars athletic competition arises from the obsession with winning at all costs. Elite athletes,...
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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Sports Ethics: Buying & Selling Human Beings

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I love following the world of sports trades. As the baseball trade deadline looms I obsessively follow MLB Rumors 10-15 ti...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Sports Logic: Parallel & Sequential Sports

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Each sport possess its own competitor logic. This logic generates accompanying intellectual and physical virtues that connect to success gi...
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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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