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The following is a guest post from Brandon Johnson, a graduate student in Exercise and Sport Science at Eastern Kentucky University: Nearly everyone agrees that a worker deserves a fair and suitable workplace environment. Yet, a less congenial notion within college athletics is who is deemed an employee. For years, student-athletes at the collegiate level were just that: student-athletes. Their schedules were crammed with coursework, meetings and practices. Such student-athletes gave their time, blood, sweat and tears in return for a college degree. Rarely thought to be employees, student-athletes represented their school in competition day in and day out. However, increases in technology and media coverage have led to a grand restructuring of the collegiate athletic model. Bowl Championship Series (BCS) games and March Madness have created a multi-billion dollar industry. And now, student-athletes want their share. A recent ruling by the National Labor Union declared members of the ...

(Originally Posted at The Sports Ethicist )  In his weekly blog , Jack Bowen of the Institute of Sports Law and Ethics discusses a recent MMA incident.  Mike Pantangco submitted to Jeremy Rasner in an amateur bout. ( Watch it here ) The remarkable thing is that Pantangco was beating Rasner rather soundly. In Pantangco’s word’s: "I just feel that there's no point fighting him because he didn't train against me and I didn't train for him and I just feel like we're amateur fighters…We don't get money, we don't get paid, and I know that the only thing I'm going to finish the fight is him to go in the hospital or get hurt. I just feel terrible so I'm just going to give him the win." ( Source ) In his blog, Bowen praised Pantangco’s action as exceptionally good sportsmanship and a gesture of compassion. Other bloggers and writers similarly praised Pantangco. While I acknowledge his submission was an act of kindness, I do not agree that this was an a...

During the past year I’ve thought an awful lot about commitment, especially what it means for youth sport athletes. In this time our oldest son (now 15) has moved from an assortment of activities – running, basketball, football, and volleyball – in order to focus on his sport of choice, which is soccer. He has gradually immersed himself in the practice tradition with hopes to see just how good he can become. His decision brings to mind a passage from philosopher William James. In Psychology: The Briefer Course , James writes: “So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully, and pick out the one on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real.” James was an unabashed advocate of the “strenuous life” which included a modicum of potential risk and precipitousness. To this point, a youth sport athlete commitment to a single sport exemplifies the kind of strenuous life James ...

Fellow blogger Mike Austin and I did a podcast in which we discuss diving in soccer and whether it counts as cheating or not. The podcast picks up from blog posts by Mike and I on the topic. More about the podcast at SportsEthicist.com Mike's original post: "Diving in Soccer: Keep the Outrage," Ethics for Everyone My response: "Cheating and Diving" SportsEthicist.com

Call for Papers: Book Chapters Working Title: “Defining Sport: Contemporary Explorations” Publisher: Proposal will be submitted to Lexington Books Editor: Shawn E. Klein, PhD; sklein@rockford.edu The focus of the book is to bring new scholarly attention to the issues and questions involved in defining and explaining the nature of sport. There are several classic works that treat these issues, but with the growth of the philosophy of sport a renewed focus on how to define and conceptualize sport is needed. Chapter ideas: Analyses of common approaches to defining sport (or related concepts such as competition or athlete) in the philosophy of sport literature. (E.g. Bernard Suits, essentialism, formalism, interpretivism, and externalism.) New approaches to defining sport (and related concepts). Examination of borderline cases  (e.g. Motor Sports; Animal Sports, cyber-sports, fantasy sports) Analysis of problematic cases ( e.g violent/blood sports) Discussions of methodological differ...

Broadview Press has released a 3rd edition of the Bernard Suits classic: The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia . The new edition restores the illustrations from the original publication. Also, there is a new appendix on the meaning of play. It looks like the appendix is Suits' "Words On Play" article. At The Sports Ethicist blog , I've reposted a brief review of The Grasshopper . Also, I discuss Suit's "Words on Play" article.

I'm reposting this link provided a few days ago by Emily Ryall. I think this is something the philosophy of sport community should get behind, and by "get behind" I mean donate some money : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1586916355/the-allrounder